Float Plane takeoff
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Topic: Float Plane takeoff
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Subject: Float Plane takeoff
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 12:13am
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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" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/embed/7osw2jcsi6Q?rel=0 |
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 4:30am
| o-k...silly.....sooooooo....how do you land it there? lol |
Posted By: Amos
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:00am
| You just water down the grass and land on it, carefully... |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:06am
| WOW Takes guts to try that. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date 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 ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 8:33am
LOL I thought the same thing. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
shameless (ne) wrote:Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date 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. |
Posted By: TREVMAN
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 1:49pm
| Canadian Aircraft Carrier division hard at work...Looks safe to me, what could possibly go wrong? Trev. |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 2:10pm
| Shameless... speaking from experience emergency landings in those planes on dirt are not the best... may have worked better without the trees |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date 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!!!!!!
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Posted By: Orange Blood
Date 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. ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: 59f100292
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 4:50pm
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Qzgs0ZFmA |
Posted By: BenGiBoy
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 5:09pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Qzgs0ZFmA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Qzgs0ZFmA ------------- '39 Model B Tractors are cheaper than girls, remember that! |
Posted By: WDman1951
Date 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 ------------- 1951 WD 1945 C 1936 WC |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2016 at 6:12pm
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Holy Crap!!! ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: HaroldOmaha
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 10:09pm
| 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. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 11:54pm
| WooHoo....Harold....is a member of the mile high club!!!! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 11:58pm
| i'd rather be in the truck than in that danged plane! whew! |
Posted By: nanuk
Date 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. ------------- AC7060Pd 1975 |