Posted on 06/29/2008 7:36:17 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sacre bleu! The plane that ended up perched on a villa roof after engine failure
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 9:23 PM on 28th June 2008
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This was the damage after a light aircraft came down in France today.
The small plane crashed into a village in Vezenobres, a small town with a population of 1,400 near the Southern coast of France, this afternoon, and ended up perched on the roof a villa.
No-one is believed to have been injured in the accident, which happened when the plane's engine failed.
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Were any MIT students involved?
Light, wast the airplane made out of paper? Looks like somebody gently laid it down on the roof.
used to get Mussilini off a mountaintop by Anna Weis in ww2.If he was flying into the wind ... it is conceivable he could've placed it right on top of the roof.
Caption for the photo of the 2 young gendarmerie fellas:
Fella #1: So, um, whaddaya think we oughtta do about this?
Fella #2: Um, I dunno, was there anything in the training manual about problems like this?
Fella #1: Um, not that I can recall.
Fella #2: Well, um, then I guess we should just stand here until somebody tells us what to do.
Fella #1: Er, okay, but I think we should stand back a ways, in case it slides down.
Fella #2: Yeah, good idea.
Well so much for the idea of putting ethanol in aviation fuel. Who kenew it would draw water into the tank?
You can’t park out front like everybody else. Ya gotta be special!
Yes it looks like one of those extreme ultra lights.
There is so much parasite drag in the airframes that they have almost no glide ratio. I watched a YouTube on one where his little engine died and they drop like a rock.
“Who kenew it would draw water into the tank?”
I do, the FAA does, and anyone that needed to get the water out of an underground fuel tank.
Any landing you can climb down from is a good one.
Hmmm, ok...but that’s not a storch on the roof is it?
Not that gently. You see any landing gear? No, me either. That’s because it punched through the roof.
Assuming there was any landing gear, you would thing it would have disturbed some of the roof tiles... looks like it dropped straight down.
Okay so what is your point there?
What sort of payload did they expect to carry with that airframe/engine? A couple of 200lb depth charges? Never heard of those from WW2
The Slepcev Storch has fascinating numbers.
I've seen a Qucksilver about 800 ft. up that just sat there because it was going into the wind and was probably running a small Rotax engine, I think the smallest is a 447.
The plane is a homebuilt “experimental” Zenith Zenair CH 701, two person plane. Manufactured in Moscow Missouri.
A S.T.O.L plane that can take off in just two hundred feet and land in less if you know how to fly it well.
You buy one as a kit and then put the power plant you want and the instrument package you want.
Flys at about 110m.p.h. or as slow as about 30.
Correct.
There are a couple of light sport planes Drifter and AirCam that can fly slower. But the wingss area is greater too.
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