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- uptwolait, on 04/21/2009, -1/+132No bridges, traffic, power lines, etc. What incredible luck!
- NYankee2003, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1092 things i don't make myself : condoms & airplanes.
- OneRottenTomato, on 04/22/2009, -5/+98"I'd like the #3 meal. No tomatoes. Curly fries. Large Coke..."
- thecosmicpope, on 04/22/2009, -1/+89Amazing skill to line it up with so little time, and amazing luck that the road was clear.
- Audi0, on 04/22/2009, -3/+83Anybody who can keep his calm in a situation like that deserves a medal. Well done mate
- Chairboy, on 04/22/2009, -4/+84A good landing is one you can walk away from, an excellent one is where they can re-use the aircraft afterwards. This guy made an excellent landing, bravo.
One thing, this video reinforces my distrust of Rotax 2-stroke engines. - thejbo, on 04/22/2009, -2/+77YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk - DredPir8Robrts, on 04/22/2009, -7/+80Do we still have to call it "tape"?
- awesometastic1, on 04/22/2009, -3/+75Am i the only one who had a hard time finding the video because i naturally assumed it was an advertisement there on the side and thus tuned it out without even realizing or thinking about it??? Seriously took me forever to find it, and i only kept looking because people here clearly watched it.
- HAL90000, on 04/22/2009, -3/+71"Watch the wing! Watch the wing! Watch the wing!"
"***** the wing." - amauldin71, on 04/22/2009, -1/+58I don't know how the pilot kept the plane in the air so long with those huge balls of his.
- sunniershine, on 04/22/2009, -1/+49I'm only impressed by the parking job at the end.
- AudioLoveMagic, on 04/22/2009, -18/+64The Wrong Brothers?
(someone was gonna to say it) - rharris, on 04/22/2009, -1/+38Yes. In this case there was a good chance it was mini-DV or 8mm video tape.
- borez, on 04/22/2009, -2/+36Awesome landing there, that could have quite easily gone ***** up. No doubt.
- mistaunix, on 04/22/2009, -1/+29this is a single engine prop plane. many things could have happened, there may have been an oil leak.. the ecu may have detected a fault and went into safety mode. the first thing a pilot is trained to do on engine failure is to start looking for a place to land. next is to head in that direction. then they restart the engine. if they can fly further, they reassess their landing situation. that road was the best place they had to go. the less thrust you have, the less lift you get. look at how the plane was dropping, i'm not going to call shenanigans, they even bent the ***** out of their prop blade on landing.
- firewall1, on 04/22/2009, -0/+26lol ya, I spent about 30 seconds looking for the video.
- techfish, on 04/22/2009, -0/+22***** the wing!
- byronm, on 04/22/2009, -0/+21Believe it or not planes still fly without any engines. Part of your preflight check is to understand the glide ratio of your aircraft so you know the pre-determined speed and configuration of the aircraft to maintain controlled descent in the event of a power failure. The amazing part of this flight is just how low he already was and still able to maintain the configuration.
- jba68, on 04/22/2009, -1/+22wow look at the arm chair pilot.
- MiracleBlue, on 04/22/2009, -3/+21Pulls up into the shopfront driveway at the end, such a show-off!
Very nice - Tooooon, on 04/22/2009, -2/+20Now that's what you call an "Oh *****" moment
- Lasereth, on 04/22/2009, -3/+21Good god. That was one of the best videos I've seen. Probably the best this year.
- mnpilot, on 04/22/2009, -1/+17Well exucuted emergency landing. As someone who has been through this same situation, very well done.
- ObeseSnake, on 04/22/2009, -0/+15I think he was trying to get out of the road and avoid blocking traffic.
- moose26, on 04/22/2009, -0/+15They got very lucky with there being no traffic or cars on that stretch of roadway they chose to land on.
Seems like even with the loss of consistent engine power,.. they were able to safely land it on the roadway and be aware of any cars that may come into conflict with them below. They even pulled it off the road into a small parking lot at the end, like they planned it on the fly as they had to judge the plane's momentum and whatever braking power they had. Great job on a safe landing for them and keeping it safe for anyone in the area. - milkmage, on 04/22/2009, -1/+16did the pilot APOLOGIZE at the end.. "Sorry Joe?"
I love how the passenger clapped when they landed. - daviejer, on 04/22/2009, -1/+15He had more than enough altitude and airspeed to pull off a cheeky loop and could have probably squeezed a barrel roll in just before landing. People like this make me sick. Chuck Yeager would have simply jumped out over the lake leaving his lady clapping" friend to see how awesome he really was.
- mnpilot, on 04/22/2009, -1/+15If you don't know what the ***** your talking about, shut the ***** up and move on.
- rharris, on 04/22/2009, -0/+13If I just built an experimental plane, I don't think I have money left over for the latest and greatest video camera. I'd be putting it into a ballistic recovery parachute system.
- Stemnin, on 04/22/2009, -1/+14Same, watch it from the youtube link (posted above).
- bblande, on 04/22/2009, -4/+16And this, my friends is why you don't take up your friend's offer to fly you in his "home-built airplane."
- Nothlit, on 04/22/2009, -0/+12It flew just fine. It was the engine that was the problem, and I'm pretty sure the engine was not home-built.
- FearisFailure, on 04/22/2009, -1/+12for .25 more you can super size it.
- tawnee, on 04/22/2009, -0/+11i was looking at a disappointing slideshow of 3 pictures for a while before i found the video :\
- InetRoadkill, on 04/22/2009, -0/+11One thing you learn about when flying 2-stroke engines is how to do emergency off-field landings. It's not a question of if, but rather when.
The rule we used when flying 2-strokes was never fly over anything you didn't want to land on, and if you did, make damn sure you had enough altitude to get away from it should the engine quit. - lewscroo, on 04/22/2009, -1/+11I don't know, nothing feels quite so nice a freshly homemade lambskin condom. Fresh lamb-intestine on your junk just feels so right.
- snotrokit, on 04/22/2009, -1/+10Damn good job handling a real emergency, these guys were really low and extremely lucky, but did not panic, and did things the right way. Fly the plane, fly the plane, fly the plane.
- Gsicht, on 04/22/2009, -1/+10Dugg for '***** up'.
- DeadFox1, on 04/22/2009, -0/+8tmi
- yatucaMP, on 04/22/2009, -1/+9damn. one hell of a landing...i'd have paid to see the guy's face who drove past the airplane while it was landing =P
- Craftybadger, on 04/22/2009, -4/+12Imagine driving and seeing a plane driving down the other side of the road;
"Wait, it's legal to drive planes on the road now?" - AresDiggs, on 04/22/2009, -1/+8No thanks... the cup holders in the plane don't hold the bigger drinks
- rharris, on 04/22/2009, -10/+17Watch the wing!!!
- blqysmg, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7I'm happy for them. It is great that they were able to land without injury or damage.
I'm sad for you. Only a true idiot can't see that the airplane worked just fine. Why would you worry about where the airplane was made? If there is a skilled craftsman making fine furniture in his home shop, do you sneer at it because it was not turned out in a factory? Are we supposed to be impressed by products made by companies who maximize profit more than people who craft items for themselves out of a labor of love?
Personally, I'll bet that "homemade" airplane got 1000 times the attention during manufacture than one that was churned out by someone making $12 per hour pushing as much product out the door as his boss can make him. - Chairboy, on 04/22/2009, -0/+72-stroke engines aren't inherently less reliable from a mechanical standpoint, but it seems harder to keep them running reliably than a four stroke for some reason. NTSB statistics show them to be something like twice as likely to fail in flight, I can't remember the exact figure. It could be because of maintenance, lack of instrumentation, the high-revs, I don't know.... but the incident stats say that for whatever reason, they stop unexpectedly more often.
- byronm, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7Especially for a pilot that young. However, it must be said, kudos to the great training programs across the world. Pilots are taught to think ahead of the cockpit and obviously this pilot paid attention to that rule.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+8I still call the bizhub thingy a mimeograph machine.
- InetRoadkill, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7Two-strokes require more maintenance than 4-strokes. The reason is that they carbon foul the piston rings which causes a sudden loss of compression and subsequent engine failure. They can be reasonably reliable if you pay strict attention to the maintenance demands. Mostly that means tearing them down every 100 hours for decarboning the pistons, rings, and cylinder head.
- frequentFlyer, on 04/22/2009, -0/+6100 hr TBO? No thanks.
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