Never before, have I seen this...
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Never before, have I seen this...
I really don't know whether to laugh or cry 
Warning: Contains regular profanity!
edit - Allegedly the 'pilot' had zero flying experience...
Warning: Contains regular profanity!
edit - Allegedly the 'pilot' had zero flying experience...
Last edited by Halfbaked_Boy; 11th July 2012 at 16:49.
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It was a bit silly, especially as the registration was cancelled by the CAA over 12 years ago.
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I don't understand what you all complain about: This is the kind of spirit that made the dream of flying a reality 
And when I think back about my beginner's course in hanggliding in the 1980ies it wasn't so different from what we see in that video (I still have some rolls of Super-8-film to prove it!).
And when I think back about my beginner's course in hanggliding in the 1980ies it wasn't so different from what we see in that video (I still have some rolls of Super-8-film to prove it!).
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From: Sth Bucks UK
Boys having fun! There should be more of this. Kids don't climb trees any more, or use catapults.
To us that have knowledge and experience it looks foolhardy but to them it looked like jolly old japes!
To us that have knowledge and experience it looks foolhardy but to them it looked like jolly old japes!
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As a nation, we are known for our sense of irony.....that is excepting our upper classes, who seem devoid of any sense of self-awareness of their own awfulness at times.
I'd love this to be a spoof, but I've met too many of these characters to believe that it is anything but genuine. They really are something else.
If there is a bust of R112 this summer, there is a good chance it will be one such character, except driving something more powerful.
PS. Anyone driving an immaculate Chelsea Tractor is no pioneer, trust me.
I'd love to be around for the CAA call. Can someone please record it for me.
I'd love this to be a spoof, but I've met too many of these characters to believe that it is anything but genuine. They really are something else.
If there is a bust of R112 this summer, there is a good chance it will be one such character, except driving something more powerful.
PS. Anyone driving an immaculate Chelsea Tractor is no pioneer, trust me.
I'd love to be around for the CAA call. Can someone please record it for me.
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Good for him 
Ok the poor S+d had little idea of what he was doing and ended up with a bloody nose but he will either chuck it all in as a bad idea or make a very good pilot in a few years?
Good for the soul springs to mind as does the fact that the guy has spirit something which is lacking in our disapproving society
Pace
Ok the poor S+d had little idea of what he was doing and ended up with a bloody nose but he will either chuck it all in as a bad idea or make a very good pilot in a few years?Good for the soul springs to mind as does the fact that the guy has spirit something which is lacking in our disapproving society
Pace
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Why would the CAA be interested? For all practical purposes the aircraft does not exist, the person in it was not a pilot, it did not fly free and the event seems to have taken place on private property.
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Yes he had a bad experience which went wrong but he had the desire and spirit to fly!
I am sure you have watched a film called "those magnificent men in their flying machines"!!!
Watched the early part with people hurling themselves off piers into the sea in all manner of potential yet disasterous flying machines?
That was the past spirit the desire to fly?
Properly harnessed that same spirit could lead to a good pilot?
Dont you think?
I saw today in the press a piece on the newly crowned world champion base jumper! Not a 20 year old lunatic but a 59 year old who is leading a sport which is totally mad and dangerous.
Pace
Yes he had a bad experience which went wrong but he had the desire and spirit to fly!
I am sure you have watched a film called "those magnificent men in their flying machines"!!!
Watched the early part with people hurling themselves off piers into the sea in all manner of potential yet disasterous flying machines?
That was the past spirit the desire to fly?
Properly harnessed that same spirit could lead to a good pilot?
Dont you think?
I saw today in the press a piece on the newly crowned world champion base jumper! Not a 20 year old lunatic but a 59 year old who is leading a sport which is totally mad and dangerous.
Pace
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To those talking about the pioneering spirit etc., what would you say if he'd bought a 152 or a tomahawk and done the same thing (tried to fly the aircraft with no training). The only thing that stopped him getting much higher was a clapped out engine.
Lord knows GA gets a bad enough press as it is without d*cks like this.
Here's another one, just with more money.
Lord knows GA gets a bad enough press as it is without d*cks like this.
Here's another one, just with more money.