I don’t fly, and don’t follow that world, but I knew about this plane.
This prop plane cost him $1M+ to build and was bad to the bone.
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This prop plane cost him $1M+ to build and was bad to the bone.
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Bush Plane Draco’s Totaled 9/16/19
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yea I couldn't believe it last night when he posted the video. Here is the ground loop video more comontary from a pilot who was at the reno race working
I will give it to him, he did a good recap. He's already building two more planes, a new race plane and "scrappy" a scrapped together 700+hp hodge-podge of a carbon cub. His twin brother Mark has a good youtube page to follow as well.
I will give it to him, he did a good recap. He's already building two more planes, a new race plane and "scrappy" a scrapped together 700+hp hodge-podge of a carbon cub. His twin brother Mark has a good youtube page to follow as well.
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Actually, I think he's a very accomplished pilot, but I think hubris got the better of him. And God set him straight. His wife and friend were with him and no one was hurt. The rest is only money, which he apparently has plenty of. Lesson learned. And he knows it.
You can see the right side landing gear compress under the wind load before he decided to take off and he took off anyway. He mentions it in one of the vids. I'm more interested in the fact that his twin brother had the same idea about flying at the same time.
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He's a fine pilot, but he flies an experimental aircraft. In a production airplane, there are specific limits for crosswind takeoffs and landings. He was trying to takeoff in a crosswind that was beyond the capability of the Draco.
This is a classic example of an attempt to beat the weather. Sailors and pilots make this mistake all the time. It is always best to wait, rather than to attempt to depart when you can see the front coming.
He'll be back with another bush plane, and he will make better decisions about the weather, I'm sure.
/armchair pilot mode off
This is a classic example of an attempt to beat the weather. Sailors and pilots make this mistake all the time. It is always best to wait, rather than to attempt to depart when you can see the front coming.
He'll be back with another bush plane, and he will make better decisions about the weather, I'm sure.
/armchair pilot mode off
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We used to call a variation of this
GetBack-itis. That's when you think you can push that one more leg home.
Climbers do it too. A friend of mine was on Mt. Rainier, snowed in for a week, in a tent, when the weather broke. A group of Taiwanese climbers made a dash for the summit, leaving their gear behind for speed. The weather closed back in on them and all 14 of them died on the mountain.
God often reminds us, sometimes harshly, how small we are.
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I know nothing about planes but can appreciate engineering and anything mechanical. Watching the first video, that plane and what he built it into was pretty darn impressive!