Sunday, August 13, 2017

HOW NOT TO...

How not to land your Float Plane...
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In the first instance (right here in Central Florida), the pilot neglected to retract his regular landing gear during a water landing.
The second image demonstrates one possible result of a violent touchdown in water: a pontoon completely ripped off the aircraft.
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Brownbird - August 13th
*images from TV in the last few weeks

1 comment:

Paul Clark said...

The float planes for Sun and Fun land at Fantasy of Flight. A few years back they had 2 of them flip while landing because it was so windy.