Some of you guys know I'm hard at work preparing a new website for take-off, but I still don't know where all this work will land. For Bush Pilots in Alaska, any 100 yard stretch will suffice. Surface not important... Bush Pilots in Alaska - YouTube
Thanks for sharing. Great stuff, I don't even wanna ask how many hours these guys have on record! Cheers, Alfred
STOL competition In the same vein....STOL 2009 May Day Fly In High Lights and Crashes - YouTube So what's the yachting equivalent of a taildragger?
I guess a "Keel Walk" or this: http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/general-yachting-discussion/18532-how-get-yacht-80ft-mast-under-65ft-bridge.html Cheers, Alfred
Been there done that: I flew bush in Alaska, landing on beaches, sand bars and gravel strips. Keep in mind about the above video, as impressive as it is was with empty high-performance airplanes flying for the camera. The working guys up there in Alaska fly fully loaded with mostly stock airplanes and they don't leap of the beach at 35 knots like these guys did.. My most crazy stunt on the beaches was flying a DC-3 hauling Silver Salmon for the eskimos, from Tsiu River to the cannery in Cordova: We took the -3 from a small airlport around Seattle and ferried it up there, fully loaded with guns and tents and a Bobcat 4-wheel drive forklift to load the fish touts in the airplane. We camped on the beach for 6 weeks flying in any kind of weather as long as there was fresh fish to haul. Wish I had pictures, but here is the airplane, now faded a bit, but it was faded in 1986 when I took it up there... After my Alaska days I moved to St. Thomas and bought a 44' sailboat, never sailed before and never owned a boat. Folks said you are crazy, you need to take courses and learn this and that: Compared to flying in Alaska the boat and sailing thingy was easy..Come to think of it, I never took any courses to fly bush either, just went up there with a fresh pilot ticket in 1980. Also flew C-185s, C-188s and C-207 off the beaches, hauling fish and eskimoes and such..Good stuff but don't have the balls to do that anymore. Nowadays I only want to sail my avatar boat to the Exumas, put the anchor down and drink beer.
The Piper Cub is just amazing. I suppose that one is a "Super" Cub with the bigger engine and those nice tundra tires too. Practically the utility of a helicopter.
For those of you following this thread, I'm posting a partial screen shot (a teaser) of what I'm busy building behind the scene. It's a site for things that need a LOT of runway.
Looking forward to seeing the launch! Nice work Carl. Karma: Once upon a time I posted something that sent you on a time sink for some odd end or another. In your OP, you posted the bush pilots youtube link. Which I watched with great interest. Then got suckered into the "related videos" and watched "The Daredevil Pilots of Colombia", (well worth the 25 minutes) which led to another on risky pilots, planes, etc. 2 hours later...... The daredevil pilots of Colombia - YouTube
hay carl where i live the runway is only 3400 ft make sure it has no trees in the way i use most of it keep your nose up in the turns travler
It's not a good sign when the co-pilot pulls out a map and asks "WTF are we"? This happened to me when I was a passenger in a Huey near the Korean DMZ in the early 80's.
Me too... Had the same thing happen along the RVN, DMZ, and Laotian border while flying in a Huey back in '66. Only it was the pilot that said it, and was serious. Woke our butts up real fast...
my co pilot asked what was going on one time when i pulled out a road map and started looking for land marks travler
Cropduster I worked with a pilot that flew one of the Steerman Bi-Planes rigged for crop-dusting for a few months just after I finished my Army hitch back in the 60's. He flew it from Vincennes, IN, to Binghamton, NY using road maps, and following mostly hi-ways. A great guy to work with ! Hand starting that radial engine was not something to do with a hangover ;-)
kevin you are right i follow roads they look awsom at night some times at 430 and it is clear travler
My younger brother still flies like that. We'd be putting along along (Beech V35), he'd key up and ask me "Hey, did you see if we passed Hwy 50 yet?" 'yeah, about 5 minutes ago, why?' HARD bank left...... "We missed our turn!" So much for charts, ATC vectoring, and gps eh?
needle , ball & air speed it will get us there it was hard for me to transition from round gages to an all glass cockpit have fum travler