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- man up and get it done, here publically, or I will call you out individually and by name!
GO HAWKS!
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VarmintGuy What sort of example are you continuing to set for all the little Varmitguys & Varmitgals of the world? They have always looked up to you... Now man up, get it done, and face the seahawk elephant in the room or we will be forced to have Harrison Ford fly over your house on his next solo flight (if they don't pull his medical card from this accident)!!!! was the plane named seahawks, as it crashed.
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Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs, my ass!
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From what I saw, the radial engine in that Recruit quit on him (did he do something wrong? who knows) He did good to put it down in the golf course. I don't know how much time he had in that thing but rumor is they can be a little squirrely. The video didn't show the crash so I don't know how well he handled the emergency. Off-airport landings in trees are generally hard on both planes and peoples.
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Beauty of a plane, too bad. Agreed. I don't know how to drive planes, but I still appreciate the pretty ones. Too bad he couldn't have crashed his Prius instead..........
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Was it even his plane?
At least John Denver crashed an ugly one- a long EZ.
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Just saw a new report on it and the praised him for doing everything right. I guess the Ryan did belong to him. Interviewed a local guy that has one and he did confirm that they can be pretty hard to fly with a dead stick.
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So, has dysentery douche ever answered his own throw down thread yet?
What a catch! Twelfth man caught laryngitis.
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Just a thought:
The Kinner Engine Company ceased to be in 1946. The engine in HF's Ryan is at least 69 years old. No matter how well maintained it was, it was old and things eventually break.
All in all, I say he did a good job. He survived and he didn't hurt anybody else. And the plane will eventually fly again.
Being suddenly faced with an engine failure at low altitude is a very tough test for any pilot. He kept his cool, and kept the aircraft under control and did the best with what was available. Anything less than excellent performance on his part and we would most likely be reading his obituary.
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plenty of those old engines still around and in good shape...IIRC there is still a Gloster Meteor out there flying on its original engines which is one hell of a thing if yah know anything bout the life span of most the individual early get engines...well taken care of alot of those WWII piston engines currently flying will still be working fine in another 50 years.....
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the main reason there arent many isnt cause they werent built to last a couple lifetimes but cause even by 1950 so many were scrapped just to scrap them.....almost no one wanted the ones in the states....other than the Corsairs the military wasnt interested in keeping most of the fighters around due to interest in jets and the Brits just tossed most of theirs from us in the sea or buried them to fulfill the lend-lease requirements.....wouldnt have taken much to have a whole lot of them still flying today but like most things hind sight is 20/20
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From what I saw, the radial engine in that Recruit quit on him (did he do something wrong? who knows? Maybe he throttled back to far...
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From what I saw, the radial engine in that Recruit quit on him (did he do something wrong? who knows? Maybe he throttled back to far... On take-off and climb out??
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This just in
Proctology report says it was a hard sit
butt on a soft spot.
All is well.
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I remember when John Denver crashed.
First thing out my mouth upon
hearing the news
(sing with me, you know the tune )
"Sunshine,
on my airplane,
in the water."
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BAN THE RAINBOW FLAG!
PERVERTS OFFEND ME!
"When is penguin season, daddy? I wanna go kill a penguin!"
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All the news reports I saw say he did everything as right as possible under the circumstances. His engine quit after take off, he radioed in an emergency and got clearance to land back at the airport but didn't have the altitude to get there so picked the best space available. If he hadn't handled the situation as well as he did the crash would have been much worse and/or folks on the ground could have been hurt.
Low altitude engine failures are among the worst situations you can face and it takes good training and cool thought to get out of them alive. The Micron CEO, Steve Appleton, was killed in a plane crash here in Boise a few years ago under similar circumstances. His engine quit right after takeoff, he tried to make "the impossible turn" to get back to the runway but banked too steeply, the plane stalled and went inverted and he died.
Whatever anybody's personal hatreds are for Mr. Ford or his views he did some good pilot stuff.
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In related news I saw this headline on-line: "Doctor helping downed pilot is shocked to find Harrison Ford"
With a subheading "Harrison Ford not the least bit shocked to find doctor on golf course..."
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I read that he broke his pelvis and an ankle.
Not fun.
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Ghostinthemachine: I received an off-line E-mail from a pilot friend of mine who lives and flies out on the west coast - he was wondering if the plane simply ran out of gas?
I can't imagine that, but he relays that this happens all to often.
I mean he JUST took off from one airport and couldn't even make it to another airport just a couple miles distant - I would go with catastrophic engine breakage of some kind.
Again thankfully this liberal lived through this crash.
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Ghostinthemachine: I received an off-line E-mail from a pilot friend of mine who lives and flies out on the west coast - he was wondering if the plane simply ran out of gas?
I can't imagine that, but he relays that this happens all to often.
I mean he JUST took off from one airport and couldn't even make it to another airport just a couple miles distant - I would go with catastrophic engine breakage of some kind.
Again thankfully this liberal lived through this crash.
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VarmintGuy If I remember correctly, that's exactly what happened to John Denver. No friggen gas.
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