New measures to combat the speeding driver

[bennylaird]

We sorta figured when the hens saw the F18 they thought it was a new rooster and died of fright?????

[Greg Q]

Foghorn Leghorn this, baby!

[bennylaird]

Check this out, an oldie but great.

Go to http://rcelectricflight.com/newgreenairframeset.htm

select: videos

scroll down to:

Check this Video out, that we got from a friend in the USA..You want a wake up call! How low can you go?? (make sure you have it full screen and sound up!!!)

[Greg Q]

Hmmmm. Can't get it to load completely. The site, I mean.

[bennylaird]

Hmm I'll see if I can email the video to you then.

[bennylaird]

try this link:

http://www.bofunk.com/video/818/low_flying_plane.html

[Iain]

Worked for me, a little surprised wasn't he
Spends years refining his vocabulary skills and this is the best he can manage

[Greg Q]

Yeah, he captured the reaction perfectly. Good actor.:eek:

[bennylaird]

Just trying to work out if it was a 3 or 4 blade prop from the parts in his hair?

[Greg Q]

Years ago I used to work in the Rockies in Canada, for a mob that did mostly freight work. On Friday mornings aeroplanes would return home from a week away for engineering attention, arriving around 0650. Ocassionaly we'd be a little low over Okanagan Lake, feeling our oats.

Years later I was listening to someone relate this fantastic story of witnessing a 727 rip down the lake just after dawn, so low that it was making a roostertail.:eek:

I am glad sometimes to be (mostly) too old for such hijinks now.

[Greg Q]

Benny, since the first post in this thread I've been asking around about building an aeroplane. My wife said "absolutely no way, no how", so there's hope there-now I have to do the maths, and find a good low-time Merlin.

[bennylaird]

The Mirage pilots were called Knuck's, short for Knuckleheads, but the Kiwi's and the RAN had their fair share too.

I remember jumping from the bed in Butterworth after having a Kiw Skyhawk pass over the house at almost 0 ft. Then the Malaysian Ack Ack would open up firing blanks in the paddock beside us.

Also have pics taken of the tops of the wings of Trackers from the top of the Air Traffic Control Tower. So low at max power that the props nearly dug up the taxiway. The guy in the slasher actually jumped out of the tractor when he saw them coming. And then the Sikorskt chopper doing doughnuts around the tower. And a Herc on wingtips between the hangers.........Memories

[bennylaird]

Kiwi pilots would check out the clearance between supersructures on the Anzacs to see if they could fly between them. Luckily the HF arrays stopped them.

[Greg Q]

There is just something soooo cool about being young and smart, yet stupid. It's funny how close we'd come to being Darwin Award winners, only to grow old, shaking our palsied fists at these young hooligans in their fast cars!

I won't tell it here, but the stupidest thing* I ever did involved a Tracker, a police car (again) and a load of retardant.

*not really, but certainly in my Dumbass Top Ten.

[Greg Q]

which reminds me: the one thing that you should never say is "watch this", and the one thing you should never hear on the frequency is "I dare you":eek: