kgwilson Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Pity the soundtrack disappears half way through 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheyenne Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 just imagine the fun police casa here would do to you if one was do that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Well done boys, and thanks for posting !......and highlighting to the world the unique qualities of our very capable aircraft............ Maj........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankamateur Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Absolutely no landing roll, must have been some headwind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 And some luck... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Pretty Hairy bit of flying. Wouldn't rate it as very repeatable with any degree of assurance . Assume the ship is doing 22 knots and whatever the headwind is adds to the figure but would the direction and turbulence be very predictable? Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bennyboy320 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Don't like the look of that big metal mast at the pointy end of the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Most aircraft carriers don't have them. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shu77 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 That is quite amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 that looks like a very small cargo ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark11 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Slammed down the landing ... They can take a fair dumping by the looks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Isaac Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Except the nose wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motzartmerv Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Awesome..Dude could do with some rudder work, but a great bit of footage.!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naremman Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Without making light of the feat I would have my doubts that any insurance company was involved with the activity! Can't lay claim to original thought though, as some of the footage of the first attempts at naval aviation had aircraft taking off from a platform on a gun turret on battleships. From Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown's book, "Wings of the Weird & Wonderful": "Perhaps an indication of this can be given if I tell you that I landed the Storch on the aft lift of the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Triumph on 28th May 1946, and it never ran off the lift, so that the flight crew just folded its wings there and then and struck the aircraft down into the hangar without moving it an inch". Cheyenne, you obviously have more confidence in the regulatory powers of CASA than a few of us have observed. About a decade ago an intrepid Ag Operator performed a feat at Jandakot for which CASA have been unable to land a significant blow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Isaac Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 OK OK spill the beans ... what did he do???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naremman Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 OK OK spill the beans ... what did he do???? Let us just say that a floatplane took to the air and there was no water under the floats in the middle of a Jandakot runway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I've seen float planes launch from trailers behind cars on utube, looks pretty tricky but I'd say its common in the states where they swap gear for the seasons Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Isaac Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Yep, and sometimes they put them on dollies and when they lift off the dolly careers off the runway, is retrieved and used for the next one. They also often land them on wet grass for winterising as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark11 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 On the weekend there was a skydiving woman who landed in a moving mustang (on purpose)... Crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 On the weekend there was a skydiving woman who landed in a moving mustang (on purpose)... Crazy Wasn't Sally, was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon500 Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 I like a bit of 'Daring Do', and the testing of one's skills, but I could see that going horribly wrong very quickly. Any ideas of type of aircraft landing on grass field after the foxbat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlegg Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 A chopper I believe.......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA. Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 As in GYRO. It's a neat looker. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying dog Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 And some luck... Well, kinda. Look at how many times they tried before actually landing. Sure "dangerous" but they did a few "trails" first - or where they "Missed approaches"? I was surprised how low he was going in though. Me: I would have gone in higher. But that's me. WRT the takeoff. I wonder why they were holding him back so hard? The plane would have breaks, and watching how fast it got off the deck, it wasn't that critical to get off the deck. Someone said the boat/ship would be doing 22 knots..... I'm just wondering: Really? 22 kts is pretty fast from what I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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