Tail Dragger

[Airborne]

Anyone who willingly jumps out of perfectly good airplanes either is an idiot or isnt all there to begin with.
In this case maybe both.


On the other hand.
These guys didnt have much flight instruction when they started either

Better men than any of us jumped out of "perfectly good airplanes" to protect the world, and as one Paratrooper that is part of that tradition, I find it offensive.

I also say that anyone who says "perfectly good airplane" hasn't ridden on a C-130, Shirpa, or C-17, but for us it is a joke. One of those things where we tease the AF about like they tease us about being dirt darts.

Of course, defending peoples freedom whether past or present doesn't mean we seperate the intelligent from the rest... It's kind of an all or nothing.

~Airborne

[danny76]

Better men than any of us jumped out of "perfectly good airplanes" to protect the world, and as one Paratrooper that is part of that tradition, I find it offensive.

I also say that anyone who says "perfectly good airplane" hasn't ridden on a C-130, Shirpa, or C-17, but for us it is a joke. One of those things where we tease the AF about like they tease us about being dirt darts.

Of course, defending peoples freedom whether past or present doesn't mean we seperate the intelligent from the rest... It's kind of an all or nothing.

~Airborne

+1 Airborne 

[Tupac]

"Life is a drug. And it is the most addictive drug. The closer to death you are, the better the payout."

A very good modernisation of Heidegger's dictum: 'No man has truly lived until he has stared death in the face.' 

I find that the best high is an adrenaline high, and im more of a "why not" person myself.
If I have the money for something that i think would be interesting or exciting ill go for it, but coming from someone that has had a bit of training in both gliders and light planes, what he did was dangerous and endangered other people.

[Penguin]

I can't wait to get the Darwin Award association to return my e-mail!

-Penguin

[Nwbie]

Like I tell my wife all the time.
I will point to a plane in the sky..."I can fly that.....I may not be able to land it..but I think I could fly it...lol"
I hope if he has kids, he has a nice big insurance policy for them.. cuz I'm sure he will need to land it if he gets it up in the air.

[MORAY37]

Like I tell my wife all the time.
I will point to a plane in the sky..."I can fly that.....I may not be able to land it..but I think I could fly it...lol"
I hope if he has kids, he has a nice big insurance policy for them.. cuz I'm sure he will need to land it if he gets it up in the air.

There is only one certainty in this equation.  There will be a landing.

[Yossarian]

There is only one certainty in this equation.  There will be a landing.

Hopefully not a SAPP one (although that seems very likely at this point).



I just thought again about what this guy's planning to do (assuming he hasn't already done it), and his sheer self-obsessed stupidity absolutely astounds me.  I don't care whether he can pull it off or not, he's still a bloody retard for trying to do this.

[AWwrgwy]

You think our Red Baron is going to do it that way, or just hop in, turn the key, and get a rush?

Didn't he already?  Isn't that how he "pranged his kite" to begin with?

Conrad tells me he tried  to take off in a field next to his house, he said he got two feet off the ground when his left wing clipped the ground and he came down flipping the plane over and busting his prop.

And, good news.

Conrad was in the 82nd Airbourne. He served two tours over in the sand box in 2003 and 2004. The only flight experience he has and I am not kidding here........

All is well.


 


wrongway

[DREDIOCK]

Better men than any of us jumped out of "perfectly good airplanes" to protect the world, and as one Paratrooper that is part of that tradition, I find it offensive.

I also say that anyone who says "perfectly good airplane" hasn't ridden on a C-130, Shirpa, or C-17, but for us it is a joke. One of those things where we tease the AF about like they tease us about being dirt darts.

Of course, defending peoples freedom whether past or present doesn't mean we seperate the intelligent from the rest... It's kind of an all or nothing.

~Airborne

"or isnt all there to begin with"


(Why is it people only pay attention to the parts they feel like?)

[DREDIOCK]

Orville and Wilbur didn't have a flight instructor, but they took months to "get it" enough to fly some 59 seconds and 852 feet, in incremental steps, on a beach devoid of any other people.

You think our Red Baron is going to do it that way, or just hop in, turn the key, and get a rush?

Exactly why I said "Either way. It should make for an amusing video"

[RichardDarkwood]

UPDATE:

The plane in this thread is repaired and now for sale.

He said the lowest he would go is $2500.00

The plane is worth more than that. He is in a tight spot and needs the cash. Sounds like the rest of America huh?

Anyway let me know via PM if your interested and I will give you his #





Todd

[Killer91]

UPDATE:

The plane in this thread is repaired and now for sale.

He said the lowest he would go is $2500.00

The plane is worth more than that. He is in a tight spot and needs the cash. Sounds like the rest of America huh?

Anyway let me know via PM if your interested and I will give you his #





Todd

Well thats tempting. I sure wish I had $2500 and a place to put a plane lol

[Traveler]

Yep.. I think that would be classified as an ultralight so technically no license is needed.
The real question here is when he flew MSFS did he have it on easy mode or full realism.

Seriously, I think that he is ill-advised trying to fly that without some formal training,   but well with in his rights. If that is indeed an ultralight.

  dude  

On that you are wrong, He needs an sport license to fly an that plane as an ultralight.  He will not need to get a physical but he is required to get the sport license.

[Traveler]

Anyone who willingly jumps out of perfectly good airplanes either is an idiot or isnt all there to begin with.
In this case maybe both.


On the other hand.
These guys didnt have much flight instruction when they started either

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Either way. It should make for an amusing video

And one of them, Wilber I believe, died in a crash May 30, 1912

[SIK1]

And one of them, Wilber I believe, died in a crash May 30, 1912

Not even close. Unless he caught typhoid from a plane.