A new test pilot...

[15A]

Here's a guy ready to become a test pilot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujU1DjaYfs4

[n3437d]

Listening to the news reporter - I could swear she said the wings and body were crafted from "aluminium sh t"

Disappointed the clip ended too soon, I wanted to see the Maiden Flight.


Joel
N3437D

[Brad Brady]

Oh! thats nothing...five or six years ago.. at our Cross and Cockade fl yin we had a 89 year old com in. with a WW1 look alike Sopwith....Flying lawn chair.....held together with ......The Handy mans Favorite tool, duct tape. Yes I mean that it was covered with the stuff....My only prayer was he get home and not have an insistent on the airfield.....I didn't want to have to deal with the NTSB!.....I am not kidding, He needed a walker, to get from the aircraft to the dinner table. I was counting my blessings when he left!....

[Brad Brady]

Oh! to carry on.. I was impressed with the old gentleman......I just wasn't impressed with the shape of his aircraft....after all an 89 year old old man flying what he can!is impressive!!!

[GAHorn]

When you're 89 and still flying yourself around solo in the outback/outer-reaches.... who has the right to question how you do it? IMO. (or what kind of fuel you did it with)

[Brad Brady]

When you're 89 and still flying yourself around solo in the outback/outer-reaches.... who has the right to question how you do it? IMO. (or what kind of fuel you did it with)

George, Do you remeber the gold bug? Absolute pice of crap that...as I rember was sold to someone at EAA and Burnt? The gold bug was a cream puff opposed to this aircraft I agree with you. The man was excelent....I have a lot of admeriation for him