Never before, have I seen this...
 

I really don't know whether to laugh or cry :ugh:

Warning: Contains regular profanity!

edit - Allegedly the 'pilot' had zero flying experience...

Zero brain too.

Toffs do the craziest things

Don't comment before your own final video has been posted.

It was a bit silly, especially as the registration was cancelled by the CAA over 12 years ago.

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!).

Might that be a frat hazing?

Boys having fun! There should be more of this. Kids don't climb trees any more, or use catapults.:D
To us that have knowledge and experience it looks foolhardy but to them it looked like jolly old japes!

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. :D

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. :O

Brilliant! Just think of the bollox he will be able to talk in the pub. :ok:

Good for him :ok: 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 :E

Pace

Yep, poor sod. He is a trained pilot, trained by the "best" who can guess the instructor...

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.

GEP

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

I do, however not all make good pilots. Remember some posts on other forums a few years ago by a certain young pilot who was going to build his own aircraft and fly it in the local park!

At least we finally know what these kite flying NOTAMs are all about. Tethered ex-microlights pulled into the air by cars...

How about the ANO:
Articles; 4, 16/21, 50, 72/73, 137/138 from a quick look.
It could just as easily have ended in serious injury, or even a fatality.

Lets hope they track him down for his own safety

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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.

Wow, I do love watching absolute twirps on YouTube.