This is insane

[bmc]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6b_1403287361

[single_swine_herder]

Yup ... I think I'm getting the hang of posting here .... let me give it a try ....

I'll bet that none of the so-called "4 bars" in the AvCanada Brain Trust that use checklists couldn't possibly pull that off ..... that was flown by "a real pilot" with fabulous stick & rudder skills that should be the envy of every one of the Bozos that drop in here thinking they know how to fly.

Did I get it right? After all, like many of you, I have a desire to join the herd of like-minded pilots and not be on the margins of professionalism.

I do have one question though .... if this fellow was so excellent, why did he have to use the long grass segment and not the short grass portion?

[Big Pistons Forever]

I am guessing this guy is not going to die in bed of old age.......

To me this crosses the line from "WOW that is pretty amazing flying" to "That is just plain dumb"

[iflyforpie]

There's only one record for lowest flight ever.

[Colonel Sanders]

Even a four-bars could have done that upright -
it's called a "side-slip". Ask your co-pilot to
explain it to you.

Would have been more impressive inverted.

[Condorito]

Even a four-bars could have done that upright -
it's called a "side-slip". Ask your co-pilot to
explain it to you.

Would have been more impressive inverted.

Ok, why don't you record yourself doing that and post it here then?

[Colonel Sanders]

Sure. You first. People take offense when I
post too many photos and videos here, so
why don't you post yours first?

Far be it from me to ever correct the self-declared
AvCan Four Bar Brain Trust (tm) but this trick used
to be a staple of the airshow crowd, many years
ago.

You may have heard of a book called "Jonathon
Livingston Seagull", written by a guy called Richard
Bach (or not - you're probably too young) who used
to fly a Pitts on the airshow circuit many years ago,
and he used to do this.

And he's just a guy who writes books, not a proud
Four Bars that struts around an airport terminal.

[Condorito]

Sure. You first. People take offense when I
post too many photos and videos here, so
why don't you post yours first?

Far be it from me to ever correct the self-declared
AvCan Four Bar Brain Trust (tm) but this trick used
to be a staple of the airshow crowd, many years
ago.

You may have heard of a book called "Jonathon
Livingston Seagull", written by a guy called Richard
Bach (or not - you're probably too young) who used
to fly a Pitts on the airshow circuit many years ago,
and he used to do this.

And he's just a guy who writes books, not a proud
Four Bars that struts around an airport terminal.

No way man! Im a shitty pilot. I would crash right away. I only fly like 50 hours a year.Pathetic.

[Colonel Sanders]

The best pilots in the world (sure as hell not me)
only fly 40 hours a year (no typo), unlike the
proud, strutting four bars, who log thousands
of hours watching an auto-pilot fly.

I reall doubt that you have any idea who they are.

Anyways, you fly more than the best pilots
in the world. Post your video of the pickup.

[Big Pistons Forever]

There's only one record for lowest flight ever.

Nobody has ever broke that record but too many have tied it.......

[benoit.baril]

There's only one record for lowest flight ever.

Nobody has ever broke that record but too many have tied it.......

Has anybody crashed on the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan? If not, there can still be hopes of breaking that record.

[Colonel Sanders]

[TG]

pffff......Chicken!
Flags should have been set on the ground ahead of his flight path.
Where they had the grass clean cut!


Want to know how it is done!?
Ask the Chinese.

[single_swine_herder]

Now there's a real pilot ... thanks for showing us a great aviator TG

[Blakey]

You may have heard of a book called "Jonathon
Livingston Seagull", written by a guy called Richard
Bach (or not - you're probably too young) who used
to fly a Pitts on the airshow circuit many years ago,
and he used to do this.

And he's just a guy who writes books, not a proud
Four Bars that struts around an airport terminal.

Richard Bach flew a Pitts? I'd only heard of his flying a Detroit Parks Speedster on the airshow circuit.

He did do a bit of flying outside the circuit though.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... crash.html

[CpnCrunch]

I'm pretty sure even a 4-bars could land on a runway without hitting telephone wires. It looks like he also ground-looped a P51:

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief ... 4936&key=0

[Pop n Fresh]

The good old days when you could merely be a well off pilot, buy a P-51 and go flying around with 28 hours. You would probably have to be a multi millionaire to afford insurance to try that today even if you owned the P-51 outright.

I saw a guy drag the wing of a black piper cub. No one accused him of wrong doing and there were a lot of more experienced pilots hanging around the airport that day watching him than me. He was wearing a white shirt but there were no epaulettes.

[CpnCrunch]

The good old days when you could merely be a well off pilot, buy a P-51 and go flying around with 28 hours. You would probably have to be a multi millionaire to afford insurance to try that today even if you owned the P-51 outright.

Well he did sell a million copies of his book in 1970, so I assume that is how he was able to afford the P51. 14 knot wind.

[Pop n Fresh]

My point exactly. You'd have to be that Just Kidding Rowly guy to afford a P-51 now days.

Now I have to check my pants because of that scary wind speed you wrote.

[AirFrame]

Well he did sell a million copies of his book in 1970, so I assume that is how he was able to afford the P51. 14 knot wind.

I heard him speak at the Arlington Fly-In one year, he talked about owning the P-51. Said he regretted buying it, it was the most boring thing he'd ever flown. Sure it was fast, and sure it was aerobatic, but he said it lacked the feeling of connectedness to his flying that he had in many other airplanes.

Also, owning it left a bad taste in his mouth... I'm not sure if it was the groundloop incident, but one time he had just replaced the entire avionics stack in the P-51, and then shortly thereafter had an off-runway incident that collapsed the gear. Nothing more than that, it was upright, intact, and everything shut down and turned off and secured before the fire trucks arrived. He told the fire chief that everything was off, nothing was broken that could cause any fires, basically, to stand down. When they put him into the ambulance to get checked out, the fire crew filled the cockpit and covered the front of the airplane with fire-retardant foam.

His P-51 was the "commercialized" version that was sold for a while after the war... Cavalier, I think?