The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on February 01, 2016, 05:27:56 PM
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And I mean REALLY short..... video is from last year, but this guy is pretty good. I figured he had a heavy headwind, but The Alaska Life FB page reported it was only a 5-10 mph headwind.
Bobby Breeden's fourth consecutive win and reported new world record for combined take-off/landing!
24 foot takeoff and 20 foot landing:
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Slow Flight. Full flaps, nose high, throttle low...barely moving.
My flight instructor landed a Cessna 150 on the warm up pad next to the runway of the small field belonging to Miami University, Oxford OH.
He commented that I should practice shortening the distance for my slow flight touchdowns and roll outs and I said "Well, how short can they be?" He showed me.
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Get the wind tight and they can land backwards.
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Alaskan bush pilots always amazed me how they can find a flat spot on the side of a mountain and land on it. Those guys don't need runways.
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Alaskan bush pilots always amazed me how they can find a flat spot on the side of a mountain and land on it. Those guys don't need runways.
Yep.
I have a 20' x 20' steel building sitting on a 21' x' 30' concrete slab....if the building was gone, the guy in the video could take off and land on that slab with room to spare.
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the MAC terminal at Udorn RTAFB was adjacent to the Air America compound.... watching the T-28s and Pilatus Porters take off was in strange contrast to the F-4s
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And then there is this:
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I wonder in the pilots had to change their under ware. I would have.
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I wonder in the pilots had to change their under ware. I would have.
If not, I'll guarantee you these guys did.
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I wonder if they had to pay for the fence. 8)