The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
He probably trained on a carrier deck......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
If you scroll down the take off was equally amazing.
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If you scroll down even farther, you'll find this amazing video:
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
Amazing, I would have never thought that was possible in a fixed wing aircraft.
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
The weight to power ratio in these planes is impressive....and the head wind helps.
I once landed a 230 SF canopy in a 24 knot head winds and had to step back a few steps on landing....
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
I like my landings long. My shortest was on a "sand bar" in a Cub in the Yukon. I have a picture of an aborted landing attempt (one of several) I will track down when I get the computer out. Taking off in the same space is the real challenge. Especially with packs and meat and stuff. In my case we were lucky because we could fly off a cliff.
"Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.
don"
Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
If you scroll down on the first link, there is both a discussion and another video of the same plane taking off.
Bush pilots are mostly amazing and a few are simply nuts
My most tense adventure was not landing or taking off---it was flying through a pass (Lake Clark pass) with zero visibility--and the pass has a dog leg in it. He did it with way points on his GPS---but the pass at many places is only a few hundred feet wide.
I calmed myself by thinking that with the visibility we had there would be, at most, a fraction of a second between seeing the mountain and nothing---not even enough time to soil my undies
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
My brother is a pilot. It's just something he wanted to do - not as a living - just for fun. Me, I hate flying - and just do it as necessary for long trips.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
This is what a pilot would call an "unusual attitude". That plane is going about 50 and is on the verge of falling outta the sky.
"Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.
don"
Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
I'm reminded of the Heritage Flight at the 2012 Wings Over Houston airshow...That year the participants were a P-51 Mustang, a P-47 Thunderbolt, an F-22 Raptor and a QF4-E Phantom which was flown in from my last assignment, Holloman AFB...They flew the diamond formation as slowly as possible for the maximum number of photo opportunities...The P-51 and the P-47 were just loafing along, while the F-22 could probably have held position while doing backflips with its vectored thrust...But the old F-4 was never designed to fly that slow, and when they stood their aircraft on their wingtips for the parade pass (which always gets a big round of applause) it was all the Phantom driver could do to hold formation...He was wobbling all over just trying to stay airborne...That's probably why they had him at the bottom of the formation, just in case......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...