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Offline republic

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I've never seen anything like this...
« on: December 18, 2007, 01:13:49 PM »
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Offline wooly15

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2007, 01:39:16 PM »
Holy crap, leaves little room for error.

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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2007, 02:38:50 PM »
I wonder what their insurer would say about their policy after seeing that! :O

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« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2007, 04:42:31 PM »
Big deal -- I've done that with all sorts of aircraft ever since the first version of Flight Simulator.
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« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2007, 05:46:40 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2007, 06:17:05 PM »
Impressive and incredibly dangerous.

The comments are amusing.

"those aren't corsair's, are they?"

"yak 52, unless i'm mistaken. The corsair has a distintive drop in the wing near the join to the body,"

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Offline Bodhi

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« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2007, 06:21:11 PM »
looks awful risky with a 65+ year old aircraft.
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« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2007, 06:40:03 PM »
no biggie :cool:

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« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2007, 06:46:09 PM »
South African team apparently. I seem to remember this being discussed elsewhere. Watersking aircraft. Apparently not as difficult or dangerous as it appears. As far as I can remember they are in effect aquaplaning. It has to be a taildragger and the parking brake must be on.

Apparently cropsprayers used to do it for sport and bush pilots often practised it. One story involved a cropsprayer skiing down a canal under bridges.:eek: