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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.
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.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
nice one
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.
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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.
Obviously a guy with a lot of time flying. (I'm more than a little envious!)
Aaron Skinner
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Airspeed, airspeed, airspeed!!!
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 !
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 .
echolmberg I wonder if he made the golf course run in under 12 parsecs. Eric
I wonder if he made the golf course run in under 12 parsecs.
Eric
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But seriously, he's an actor beloved by anyone who ever spent their youth seeing all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies in the theaters. I was so glad to hear that he's going to be okay.
No mention about how the Princess is taking all this..........
There was a disturbance...
Seems like it could've been with him a little more.
Two pages and nobody thought to say that the force was with him???
I just hope he sends someone back to replace his divot….luckily that appears to be the only damage done, except to his plane, unfortunately.
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
I fondly remember the PT-19 control line model we had as kids. Made out here in California by Cox, back when every public park or ball field had a "no model airplane" sign.
It had the .049 engine, and really flew.
The LG on the PT-22 is a nightmare. Loosing the gear on that plane is probably pretty likely in a forced landing, and does tear up the plane a lot.
The only kit I know of for it is a Lindberg kit that isn't the best. So I have started scale drawings for scratch building one. My local CAF has one, almost identical to Ford's except the nose is bare metal rather than red. I love that plane- saw so many right after the war when they were dumped on the surplus market. Seems like every peapatch airport had one or two, along with a PT-19 and maybe a Twin Beech.
At one time I believe that Testors produced a 1/48 kit of the PT-22
Looks like he hit and stopped in 20 feet. There is a video of the plane hitting the trees, but it is from farther way.
Tim Wilding
That would be to clear the trees... He did damned good for such a tight spot
"The Santa Monica Airport... You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Considering how short the marks are in the ground, it looks like it came in pretty steep. like he almost dropped it in there. Ouch!
BlackSheepTwoOneFour So close, yet so far... It's good to know it's now in post-production. What am I worried about for then???? LOL!
So close, yet so far...
It's good to know it's now in post-production. What am I worried about for then???? LOL!
who's worried?
Between the modified YT1300 (Millennium Falcon for the layman) and PT-22 it seems Han Solo needs to subject his flying craft to better maintenance. Glad things didn't turn out worse.
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He's got some broken bones, pelvis, ankle, etc, according to local news reports. looks like he did okay to put it down in such tight confines on uneven ground
Ouch, I hope he is ok, I didn't think the plane was banged up that badly!
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
A very close call. Doubly tragic if we lost Hans Solo and Mr. Spock in the same week.
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