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That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« on: June 08, 2010, 03:58:03 PM »
New prop, new crank, likely need to replace a piston head or three, top wing fabric repairs, vertical stab repairs, structural inspections.

Ouch.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/08/wwii.biplane.flips/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2010, 04:33:57 PM »
Wonder if he forgot he was flying a tail dragger....
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2010, 04:48:47 PM »
Aw, shucks....a little Bondo...a little duct tape....that'll buff right out....  ;D
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2010, 05:25:26 PM »
Heck, from the title of the thread, I though you went out and bought another gun.  Like a M68A1 105mm rifled tank gun with an Abrams mounted underneath.  ;D
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2010, 05:34:43 PM »
It looks like he locked the brakes after touchdown. You can see the tires smoking on the main gear just after he touched down.  Bill T.
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2010, 05:45:03 PM »
I thought this post was about our kids and gun addiction,...... ;)

Ooooops, my bad.....

Co-worker has been restoring a 1975 Bonanza, it's taken over 5 years and he stopped counting at $75,000. :o

and I thought boats were expensive toys... ;)
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2010, 07:03:29 PM »
Quote from: billt on June 08, 2010, 05:34:43 PM
It looks like he locked the brakes after touchdown. You can see the tires smoking on the main gear just after he touched down.  Bill T.

Ahh..yes.....you do get on the brakes soon after landing a tri-gear plane
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2010, 10:23:03 PM »
Quote from: twyacht on June 08, 2010, 05:45:03 PM
I thought this post was about our kids and gun addiction,...... ;)

Ooooops, my bad.....

Co-worker has been restoring a 1975 Bonanza, it's taken over 5 years and he stopped counting at $75,000. :o

and I thought boats were expensive toys... ;)


trust me when I say this, he is getting off cheap.
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2010, 10:39:18 PM »
Buddy of mine is a pilot and takes these events very seriously in a way that perhaps non-pilots (I'm not a pilot) cannot appreciate.  Still, when you see something that pretty, with that much experience and it's lying on its back with its wheels pointed toward the heavens, and its skin is all scuffed...  Well, it's just sad. :'(

Fortunately, doped fabric is easily worked, inexpensive, and can be quickly color matched.  And, the pilot got out with everything intact but his dignity.  As the pros say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Offered by Crusader who is quite happy on terra firma.
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Re: That's gonna leave mark...on the wallet.
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2010, 10:55:08 PM »
Sailboats scare me. Small planes scare me a lot. I don't say this as a wimp, but as an intelligent man. When you get 15 or 20 miles off shore in hundreds of feet of water, or five thousand feet up in a kit built piece of glass, you realize exactly how precarious a position you've put yourself in. I think this pilot got a grade A reality check. Gravity, its the law. ;)
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