What a very UKRM way...

.... to make a living:



I don't know how many people here will appreciate how skilful this guy
is, or how great his faith in his machinery, but the bit at 5:00 had my
testicles north of my Adam's apple and climbing.

 

... to make a living:

How high do we estimate?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Kevin Stone

I would guess that his wheels were < 10 feet from the ground.

Put it this way: I would have been flaring like a *bastard*. :^)

 

As a fucking kite I should think

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

I recall doing this sort of silly stuff back when they would allow low
flying training for trainee pilots in Australia. Having to lift up to
fly over sheep at 140 knots was great fun.

Also brings to mind an air race in Tasmania about a decade ago where
Chris Spirou [1] had a trick where he would fly a Pitts Special under
a low hanging wire about 20 feet off the ground, inverted. This time
he got it wrong and the aircraft's tail touched the ground and dragged
the plane down onto grass. He walked away uninjured and the plane was
remarkably not badly damaged.

[1] Google him if you haven't heard of him. Awesome pilot.

 

on Bolls?

 

It had me pushing my chair to the left - hard.

 

What's that funny flashing red light thing, like a radar detector, right
on the nose of the aircraft? Some sort of turn-and-bank indicator?

<Reads comments>

Ah.

Oh, and yes, he's a nutter.

 

Not far to fall though.

 

I've always quite fancied learning to fly but having learnt, what
next? The learning itself would be fun but that's it. If there was
genuinely a good chance of that sort of job at the end of it in the UK
and it paid... adequately then that might actually give a reason.

 

My kite flies at 30 metres... I guess this one flies lower.

Why not helicopters?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

Crop dusting has been illegal in the UK for quite a few years.

 

I could understand using it in the US/Canada where you have FO big fields.
But in the UK fields aren't usually big enough to justify it. Besides it's
cheaper to use a tractor with a spray boom.

--
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

Took a fortnight off work in SA to build some free hours spraying mealies
(maize) from dawn to dusk. If I never see an AgCat again it will be too
damn soon. Sod that for a game of bloody soldiers, those guys must have
cast iron balls to survive a full season.

The nutcase who talked me into that one went on to join a game conservation
outfit herding and capturing wild game in a helicopter. Crop spraying
in a slow biplane is a sane activity compared to fooling around low
and slow in a helicopter. I wonder if he is still alive.

 

I guessed something like that would be the problem. Probably you have
to be a dedicated and I'm too much of a dilettante.

Might have guessed.

 

They use helos too around here. They're barking mad as well.

 

It occurred to me that itt would be an ideal role for a gyrocopter:
they're capable of slow flying, excellent short field performance,
very manoeuverable and much cheaper to run than a helicopter.

 

I mentioned it, in the post WUN answered.

 

There are quite a few blokes who seem to like staring a crash in the face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=hDDBbmedrgk&feature=related

But this bloke.. **** me (No, not him)

 

About 5 or 6 ft.