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Post by jetmex on Oct 16, 2004 5:11:25 GMT -7
Footnote--yes, the airplane was totaled. No one was hurt. "The new adjustment to the CG wasn't quite correct...."
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Post by Britbrat on Oct 16, 2004 7:19:08 GMT -7
I wish they'd get a tractor for plowing the infield -- this is playing hell with our tips!
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Post by RonMiller on Oct 16, 2004 7:41:14 GMT -7
Hey, I got 3 ant hills with that pass.
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Post by stetto on Oct 18, 2004 8:39:28 GMT -7
Go-o-o-od Ubu, good! Now sit!
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 18, 2004 10:46:15 GMT -7
*Pilots Gone Wild* See pilots captured on film vandalizing the neighbors lawn!
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Wayne
Story teller
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Post by Wayne on Oct 19, 2004 19:47:11 GMT -7
...left...Left.....LEFT!!!! .... No the OTHER Left !!!!!!
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Post by fox4ever on Oct 19, 2004 20:52:01 GMT -7
Give her a hard right Jocko,,there a Giant standin there!!
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Post by propnuts on Oct 20, 2004 5:46:03 GMT -7
Alvin finally completed flight school, even going so far as to get his multi-engine rating, but somehow he just couldn't shake the effects of his early days as a semi-pro skateboarder doing the "[glow=red,2,300]Grind[/glow]".
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Post by Galvin on Oct 20, 2004 12:10:55 GMT -7
This is kind of a flashback to a bad experience even though it is a Howard 500 instead of a Twin Beech.
I used to do my dialy running with a lawyer named Glenn Racich back in the eighties. He was an absolute nut about skydiving and spent nearly every weekend with good enough weather out at the skydiving venues at Elsinore, Perris Valley, or in the case of his last jump, Taft, CA. There was a guy at the Van Nuys airport who had a Twin Beech all painted up in pre-WWII colors in which he dropped skydivers in on the weekend.
They all ended up in Taft for a big meet one weekend and Glenn was, of course, there. The Twin Beech in question was loaded with skydivers for a drop, the usual practice of all divers holding on to straps on the floor being followed. What happened next is not quite clear but after liftoff the airplane pitched up and stalled, dropping a wing and cartwheeling upon impact. No one survived the subsequent fire and explosion.
The best explaination is that one very large skydiver, reportedly about 280 Lbs., may have lost his grip on the floor straps and rolled back into the tailcone, possibly even jamming the elevator controls. Operating with an aft CG is bad enough but with that kind of a CG shift in a Twin Beech on takeoff, the outcome is pretty much settled if it gets off the ground that way.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 22, 2004 20:23:05 GMT -7
You now that you mention it, I could swear he was angling for a hay feeder. ;D
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Post by DickFowler on Oct 24, 2004 4:23:15 GMT -7
HEY RALPH..... You left you transmiter in the pit area!
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