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Yak Prop clearance?
sorry if it's been posted before - I've just seen it for the first time
http://www.stevesairshow.com/videos/...4-yak-close.rm :ooh: |
Good job he wasn't doing that along the North Norfolk coast!
Very lucky to be alive I should say. RD |
When I downloaded it, it was displayed in the RealOne player
... and, bl**dy hell, that was close...! |
~*&%$£@?-ing hell!
Buttock Clenching. |
kinda brings a double meaning to the phrase "skid marks" doesn't it?
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Final few feet appear to be distinctly nose up - wouldn't mind betting they found some scratches in the paintwork on that rad housing aft of the cockpit! Very lucky lad... think he can be excused the laundry bill!
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...... and incredibly, he then throws a roll off on the recovery, with a potentially damaged airframe! A little too susceptible to peer pressure maybe?
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Shocking - it smacks of very poor planning.
When I started my DA work up, I was told NEVER to split S or reverse half Cuban below 1000' Stik |
Shades of the tragic Spitfire crash at Woodford a decade or so ago.... But this guy, amazingly, got away with it by about as tiny a margin as possible.
I, too, was amazed he rolled it after that. And I love the brief hesitation in commentry when it looks like he's going in, to be quickly resumed when he makes that amazing escape from forever wearing a pair of permanent wings. SSD |
Is there any more info about this? Did it touch the runway, or did he get away with it...
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Andrews AFB last weekend.
From what I have gleaned from another site, there is a wide ditch alongside the runway (shades of Oshkosh: those of you who have been there will know what I mean) which gives a slightly better clearance than it might appear. So he apparently didn't touch the ar$e of... The low recovery was unintentional (well, I should hope so!) and he got away with it and flew the following day as well... presumably having raised the act a trifle! Not sure the CAA would have sanctioned that... |
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