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To: TigerLikesRooster
This was the damage after a light aircraft came down in France today.

Light, wast the airplane made out of paper? Looks like somebody gently laid it down on the roof.

3 posted on 06/29/2008 7:40:53 PM PDT by OCC
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To: OCC
No numbers, so it just came out of the garage for a shakedown ... obviously low and slow on the idea of a storch 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.

4 posted on 06/29/2008 8:02:07 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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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.


8 posted on 06/29/2008 8:50:54 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: OCC

Not that gently. You see any landing gear? No, me either. That’s because it punched through the roof.


13 posted on 06/29/2008 9:24:21 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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