[OM] Re: [OT]... chicken and aircraft, but were afraid to ask..

[Andrew Gullen]

on 2006/01/30 1:10 PM, AG Schnozz at agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> My dad and I were doing take-offs
> and landings at the TINY airport we hangered at. This one
> evening the wind was blowing 15-25 knots out of the west.
> ... forced us to land on Runway 17...
> dropped almost a hundred feet ... firewalled the engine and
> proceeded to weave in between the three trees between us and the
> airport (and still needed to clear the power lines).  We made it
> around trees one and two but proceeded to plow through tree
> three, which happened to be a 90 foot oak. ... The wing tip was
> sheared off...
> After momentarily flying sideways we managed to make a firm, but
> happy landing.

EEEEEUUCCK!

> We cought a wing vortice from
> the 737 ahead of us and turned us nearly inverted crossing the
> threshold.

Pretty hair-raising stories. You're a lucky man. Either of those could have
been terminal.

Andrew


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