Posted on 05/26/2005 6:06:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Landing gear wells have been used in the past to fly to freedom. Try Readers Digest if you disbelieve. And a kid is dead, try not to be such a bunch of asses.
Dude! I've been to Lanzhou. Freedom it ain't!
Ok, so the kid was joy riding and died. The next time a FReeper's kid dies from doing something stupid lets post it and call the kid an idiot. Dude.....
Thanks for the aviation ping, Aernaut. This is such sad news. Just terrible.
They were found in the wheelwells near the point of death, but on opposite sides of it. I think the French relented and let the surviving kid stay after he recovered in hospital.
Back in the days that Life magazine was a weekly staple in American households, our copy once contained a feature called "moments of truth" which was just another peg for the left-liberal editors to use to gloat over some Vietnam deaths -- but one of the pictures was a grainy shot of a would-be wheel rider in mid-fall. I think that was the end of our family's subscription to that rag, actually. It went out of business some time after that but ill-advised people keep bringing it back.
The problems with stowing away in a wheelwell are manifold.
There are some aircraft that are better suited than others to attempting this. I will not go into which ones they are for reasons which need no elaboration. As a rule of thumb, however, older machinery is better than newer for this, as engineers have gotten more creative about using space.
Sorry about the kid. But if the lust for adventure is not tempered with a little bit of learning, the sum of your life may be naught but a warning to those that come behind you, and that seems to have been his fate.
d.o.l.
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Thanks for your comments.
too bad! and security sucks, what if that's a bomb?
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