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STOL Flying Fun
Mk 19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yugSJZWPY&feature=youtu.beLooks like great fun, but I'm reminded of a friend we did airshows with back in the early 80's, he had a really nice prize winning Vari-Ez that he enjoyed flying low and fast. One day he was showing off to a friend along the Russian River when they hit a high tension line that was crossing the river, both pilot and passenger were decapitated. So if your going to fly low around a river, make sure you scout it out first, killing you and a friend makes for a really bad day for your family.
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Dude was REAL GOOD.
Doesn't that scare the fish??[B)]
Back on the farm as a kid,the guy used to go right under the wires,cut the spray 1/2 second and about 50yd. from the road.It covered JUST to the edge of the plants,skipped the road,then right back on the first plants.
Dude was REAL GOOD.
Doesn't that scare the fish??[B)]
Jeff, watched them do that on Donna's fathers farm. Those crop dusters have nerves of steel[;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)][;)]
There is a crop duster that works some acreage 1/4 mile from that scares the heck out of me each early summer. Power lines along 2 sides of the property. I don't think I care to take a ride with him.
First time I ever saw a crop duster it nearly gave me a heart attack. I was driving along on highway 72 just outside Huntsville, AL just taking it easy and listening to the radio and all of a sudden right in front of me, off to the left, coming up out of a field was a small yellow airplane and it was almost vertical at that point. The road was built up high in that area and the field he was spraying was lower than the road. What he was doing, I guess, was spraying as close as he could get to the end of the field before he pulled up. I bet he got a kick out of doing that because I'm sure I not the only one that he had surprised like that before.