Author Topic: Water skiing Harvards (Read 595 times)

Debonair · « **Reply #15 on:** May 27, 2006, 01:01:35 AM »

have you seen the 172sp with the airbag in shoulder restraint?
how long before you can get an airbag for your nuts? lol

Xjazz · « **Reply #16 on:** May 27, 2006, 04:46:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Debonair
have you seen the 172sp with the airbag in shoulder restraint?
how long before you can get an airbag for your nuts? lol

Nutairbags will give for you a real 'blowjob'? j/k

LLv34 Jarsci · « **Reply #17 on:** May 27, 2006, 04:56:38 AM »

Those guys must be flying their parking brake on, because if the wheels starts rolling it will suck the plane under... OTOH when the wheel is locked it´s acting as a skid. And water is pretty hard element at those speeds.

Golfer · « **Reply #18 on:** May 27, 2006, 10:40:11 AM »

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Originally posted by LLv34 Jarsci
Those guys must be flying their parking brake on, because if the wheels starts rolling it will suck the plane under... OTOH when the wheel is locked it´s acting as a skid. And water is pretty hard element at those speeds.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #19 on:** May 27, 2006, 11:46:15 AM »

Whats the big deal? PBY's do that all the time, and they do it gear up.

LLv34 Jarsci · « **Reply #20 on:** May 27, 2006, 12:59:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Golfer

Well, at flying schools they teach to keep brakes locked when you make a ditch into the water. Same with gliders, in case of forced landing during long distance flights (when you run out of altitude and thermals) , if you make your ditch in to the water you have to keep your wheel locked. It acts as a skid as I said before, but if the wheel starts spinning it won´t produce any "lift". Between water and locked wheel the speed stays the same, but when the wheel spins the relative speed of wheel to the water decreases and does not produce any more "lift" or "skid". My language is not good enough to produce any better explanation for this but take my word for it.

In gliders ditching into the water happens relatively often, and I have seen pics of the planes afterwards. Planes with wheel retracted or locked (if not retracts) will slide and stop on the surface , but if wheels are spinning it will drag the plane under surface instantly!

Suave · « **Reply #21 on:** May 27, 2006, 01:26:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
(c) by Ekranoplan

Lol.
Good one.

Habu · « **Reply #22 on:** May 27, 2006, 04:28:38 PM »

In Alaska pilots land on river bars all the time by doing the same thing. They set down in the water off of the bar and then ride up onto it and stop. Take off they get speed on the gravel bar and the last few feet they are on the water before they lift off.

Helps to have big tires.

Golfer · « **Reply #23 on:** May 27, 2006, 07:15:08 PM »

At least they have the parking brake on the takeoff roll