Harrison Ford's ride ?

echolmberg

I wonder if he made the golf course run in under 12 parsecs.

Eric

Hi ;

    I do know that plane is tricky to fly when you lose power . A lot of those old single wing planes from that time period liked to corckscrew in inverted , after a loss of power .The P.T.22 was a step up from the others and he did a nice job with that " Emergency Landing "  I definitely feel the " Force " was with him .

I'm willing to guess that a lot of planes are tricky to fly without power.

After seeing overhead photo showing the distance from the airport to the golf course, I'm kinda surprised he made it that far.

Hi Goose !

   No ! really  that plane and a few more were real tricky to keep in a safe mode while trying to find a spot to set down  .Many required you use everything including a whole - hearted appeal to whom you believe in to get it down right side up .

    Enter the Mooney and others as well . I have had some literally yank the stick or wheel away from your grip when the engine quit . Most I got restarted , Well , all but one .That one I put in an old  oak tree ! Upside down ! Few scratches and a lot of broken pride that day !

Airspeed, airspeed, airspeed!!!

Obviously a guy with a lot of time flying. (I'm more than a little envious!)

Typical press- can't tell a fighter plane from a trainer.  As bad as those who speak of a flight in/by jet, when picture clearly shows props.  I guess they figure a jet has big sticks out in front to whack birds.

Well, you know the press nowadays is more concerned with celebrity gossip, than in hard facts. Let alone aircraft type ID. Ah well, Mr. Ford seems to be on the mend and I hope that the aircraft will return to flight status as well.

nice one

Sprue-ce Goose

I'm willing to guess that a lot of planes are tricky to fly without power.

After seeing overhead photo showing the distance from the airport to the golf course, I'm kinda surprised he made it that far.

Indeed many older planes would spin at the drop of a hat.  More modern planes, or even newer versions of older designs, have a lot of twist or washout in the wings.  The outer areas now have a slightly lower angle of attack than the inner portion, so that the stall occurs first on inner portion of wings.  This allows the ailerons to continue to work even during the stall. 

In many older trainers this was felt to be undesirable, because the student didn't feel the extreme results of ham-handed aileron use at high angles of attack.  But newer designs are based on the idea that if you kill the student, he doesn't learn all that much during the event.