Posted on 03/08/2005 8:58:08 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
I guess he couldn't have done something simple like pull out his ticket...
I guess he couldn't have done something simple like pull out his ticket...
But then nobody would be talking about it on the internet half a century later.
...too bad he didn't mistakenly land in a lake thinking it was a wide runway.
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O.K. Time for some airplane trivial pursuit. What kind of airplane is that everyone? First correct answer wins a cookie.
Man that story is hilarious!!
lol!
Nice Woodie...
LOL. That's about the last place I'd expect to see a plane land.
Cessna 120?
Answers with a question mark on the end will be disqualified.
BZZZZZ! Try again.
The young man just had a major brain fart. He took the jet (an F-4, I believe, but I could be wrong) out for a joy ride because he was despondent over being declared "not aeronautically suited" to fly. I guess he just wanted one fling.
We got called in the middle of the night by the Provost Marshal while the guy was buzzing over our house, wanting to know if they ought to turn on the runway lights so he could land. (Answer: Hell, yeah!)
He was a bit of a folk hero, and a sympathetic figure, because it had been his dream to fly and he'd been told he couldn't. I'm sure folks would have felt differently if he'd crashed the thing into their backyard swimming pool, but he landed fine.
This was back in the '80s, when I was running the separations center there at El Toro. He was discharged with an OTH in lieu of trial, and I got to hand him his discharge papers. (Personal note: I'd had duty the night before... the guy who relieved me had to deal with this. Ha!)
In other words, you like going slllllllllllooooooooooooowwwwww. :-) (Oh, and for you wise ass millionaires who own a Lancair 400, pfffffffttttt).
Poor guy. When ya get bitten by the bug to fly, ya just gotta do it. I loved a J-3 more than I did anything else for many years. Of course I couldn't afford anything or anyone else either.
>>wanting to know if they ought to turn on the runway lights so he could land.<<
That answers some other questions I had, .... not connected with the article.
(Personal note: I'd had duty the night before... the guy who relieved me had to deal with this. Ha!)
I tell you some gals get all the luck!
One would think the pilot would feel the difference in lift when the flaps were adjusted.
There is a lot to be said for the setup in the Cessna and Piper I fly: flat, flap-shaped switch for the flaps, round, wheel-shaped switch for the gear. Can't mistake themn by touch.
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