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Alberta Phil 
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 12:13am |
Planes are often farm equipment! This is how we do it when were short on water!!LOL https://www.youtube.com/embed/7osw2jcsi6Q?rel=0
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 4:30am |
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o-k...silly.....sooooooo....how do you land it there? lol
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:00am |
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You just water down the grass and land on it, carefully...
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:06am |
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WOW Takes guts to try that.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:36am |
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I like the flashing 4 ways on the truck !!
even though I KNOW it's safe, I was holding the stick fwd to make sure I didn't 'prelaunch'.
so I have to ask the obvious question..
HOW did the plane ARRIVE at the airport ??
BTW I don't miss having to pump out the floats on a certain twin Beech
Jay
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 8:33am |
 shameless (ne) wrote:
o-k...silly.....sooooooo....how do you land it there? lol
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LOL I thought the same thing.
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Alberta Phil
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 9:14am |
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As Amos said.
Real light touch down and then full throttle and pull back hard on the yoke, then dump power. Looks weird but works well.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 1:49pm |
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Canadian Aircraft Carrier division hard at work...Looks safe to me, what could possibly go wrong? Trev.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 2:10pm |
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Shameless... speaking from experience emergency landings in those planes on dirt are not the best... may have worked better without the trees
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LouSWPA
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 2:22pm |
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pretty cool, but it would take a real skilled pilot to do that in anything but a direct headwind!!!!!!
Edited by LouSWPA - 15 Jul 2016 at 2:22pm
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 2:30pm |
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Quite likely it was either hauled there needing major work, or it arrived on wheels, and they installed the floats. Just a guess.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 4:50pm |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Qzgs0ZFmA
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 5:09pm |
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'39 Model B
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:03pm |
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Pretty ingenious I'll give them that. Kind of scary though if your driving the truck
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Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:12pm |
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Holy Crap!!!
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sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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HaroldOmaha
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Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 10:09pm |
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Some pontoons have wheels that you can extend and retract
from the cockpit. this one evidently didn't. Took my wife up in one on our Honeymoon, and a couple times since.
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 11:54pm |
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WooHoo....Harold....is a member of the mile high club!!!!
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Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 11:58pm |
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i'd rather be in the truck than in that danged plane! whew!
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nanuk
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Posted: 20 Jul 2016 at 4:21am |
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that was in Saskatoon, Sk.
in P.A. we just use the grass for landing, and a dolly for takeoff.... dolly goes flying all ways to sunday, but usually don't get too many runway lights damaged.
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