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I conducted a crash test in 1978 with a Cessna 152 when I stalled it about 12 feet over the runway. I survived. My flight check instructor survived. And, the airplane survived. I also passed my check ride. Don't know if the ELT activated.
1 posted on 08/27/2015 6:49:49 AM PDT by Purdue77
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Well, any landing you can walk away from...............


2 posted on 08/27/2015 6:51:09 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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when I stalled it about 12 feet over the runway.

Sounds like my normal landings...

3 posted on 08/27/2015 6:54:36 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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how the hell did you fit two grown men side by side in a C152? :)


4 posted on 08/27/2015 6:55:32 AM PDT by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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Heh. While I doubt you stuck the landing after stalling at 12 feet, how many times did you ‘land’ so to speak?

The landing gear of the 152 are quite resilient ;-)


5 posted on 08/27/2015 6:56:52 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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Stalled a 152? Hummmm.....Glad you and the instructor were OK.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 6:57:18 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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I’ve gone up in hundreds of Cessnas, haven’t landed in many, though.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 6:58:50 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 7:25:08 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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Did they have ELT’s in ‘78?


18 posted on 08/27/2015 7:57:00 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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I survived. My flight check instructor survived. And, the airplane survived.

Crash???

That was a GREAT landing!

29 posted on 08/27/2015 9:53:50 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Wouldn’t Cessna have thousands and thousands of crash test results already? They’ve only been around for 88 years.


30 posted on 08/27/2015 9:55:33 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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“I conducted a crash test in 1978 with a Cessna 152 when I stalled it about 12 feet over the runway.”

12 inches is typically a bit better.


35 posted on 08/27/2015 5:44:38 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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