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| Crazy air show accident - wing falls off - plane parachutes to safe landing |
| 2010-08-19 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #7 Bet that pilot needed to change his pants! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-08-19 18:41 |
| #6 sweet, imagine if Grumman had built it, no wings needed and ready to kill. Also.... IAF fields have wire? |
| Posted by: Lemuel Snaving2033 2010-08-19 17:55 |
| #5 If only Youtube were not blocked. Oh well it's a net positive, actually. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-08-19 14:25 |
| #4 Actually light planes can glide for about fiteen or twenty miles from cruise altitude. And can land about eveywhere. Commercial airliners need an airport but they can glide for over one hundred miles. That is for BRS avition whose product looka like a solution in search of a problem. |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-08-19 12:33 |
| #3 Link to BRS Aviation. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-08-19 11:49 |
| #2 A Few years ago I first heard of whole aircraft parachutes, I'm inclined to think this was a deliberate wing loss to demonstrate the parachute system. Notice the parachute had the plane coming down nose first? That would destroy the engine, odd it didn't come down upright and land on it's wheels as I saw then? Perhaps the lines were tangled? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-08-19 10:51 |
| #1 That guy's a rookie! Check out what this Israeli pilot did after he lost a wing when his F-15 collided with an A-4. Well, OK, maybe the stunt plane would have fared better if it had an afterburner. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-08-19 03:20 |