Looks like a 172 or 182... Maybe landing downwind and caught a gust with up elevator?
They don't seem to have any really good pictures. But, it looks like this is a tailwheel, maybe? Is this what happens if you stand on the brakes?
I never even considered the possibility that it could be a nosewheel airplane. Nosing over is something that happens with taildraggers.
It is a very advanced tailwheel technique: a one point landing.
John
You always keep the stick back when rolling out..
Dive away from a tail wind and climb into a head wind when taxiing.
I fly off of grass. But when I roll out on pavement it's just the rudder I'm on.
I do use the breaks for my run up though
But in general I don't know crap about flying so when I'm up get out of the way
Or a collapsed nose gear. Most common on training aircraft where the nose gear gets a fair amount of abuse. Usually when the nose gear folds back, the angle of the plane is not so extreme, so in this case I concur that likely a TW plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyb0NPkcRTA
Wow..... how did they get it to stand on its nose so perfectly?
Geometry.
ahhhhh.... ok. I was thinking it had something to do with the moon phase....
Not uncommon on a 182. On Catalina it was a sport to watch landings and wait for 182s to collapse their nose gear hitting the 'speed bump' 1/3 of the way up the runway while standing hard on the brakes, (few times a year, typically on a busy holiday weekend) but I never saw one go up on the nose. I would think it impossible due to the fulcrum position of the main gear and the angles involved. You need a vaulting lever angle/CG to get on the nose, and tricycle doesn't provide one, CG is forward of fulcrum, to vault or ground loop you need CG aft of fulcrum.
Bonanza's were the worst. Coming down high and hot over the cliff and going around or smoking the brakes. Saw one guy take three attempts to finally land. Sunday brunch was always fun. Did you ever play the reaction time game they had there. Don
I went over there once or twice a month from 78-81 then I moved to Idaho. Most of the time I was flying a Great Lakes or a Decathalon. I always just landed normally and never noticed much of a downdraft effect even on breezy days. That runway did have the illusion of being short with that hump in the middle. I used all the sailboats as a slalom course on the way back to SNA. I was younger and dummer then flying so low on the water that far from shore. Don
Watched a Cherokee at AVX skid sideways, pop a tire and come to rest right at the crest of the rise in the runway, with 1000 feet of runway remaining. That's about as much entertainment as I had there.
I remember that Lear accident in 1984. A few days later, Channel 5 news anchorman Hal Fishman flew right seat out there in Clay Lacy's Lear 24 with a camera crew in back, to show that the approach could be safely done.Better than the Lear managed. He had plenty of runway left, freaked out, hit the power to go around, engines didn't spool in time and off the end and down the hill he went. He's not the only one either, a Mooney did it a few years back but IIRC they survived.
I went over there once or twice a month from 78-81 then I moved to Idaho. Most of the time I was flying a Great Lakes or a Decathalon. I always just landed normally and never noticed much of a downdraft effect even on breezy days. That runway did have the illusion of being short with that hump in the middle. I used all the sailboats as a slalom course on the way back to SNA. I was younger and dummer then flying so low on the water that far from shore. Don
gosh, sounds just like me. Funny we didn't have a head-on going or coming. I was in Sandy Eggo and used to fly a starburst red/white Citabria out there with my GF. We'd do some skimming on the way home sometimes too. I liked to head back to the nuke plant in the afternoon and buzz down Blacks Beach, ifyaknowwhatimean? My GF in back was cool about it.
Not uncommon on a 182. On Catalina it was a sport to watch landings and wait for 182s to collapse their nose gear hitting the 'speed bump' 1/3 of the way up the runway while standing hard on the brakes, (few times a year, typically on a busy holiday weekend) but I never saw one go up on the nose. I would think it impossible due to the fulcrum position of the main gear and the angles involved. You need a vaulting lever angle/CG to get on the nose, and tricycle doesn't provide one, CG is forward of fulcrum, to vault or ground loop you need CG aft of fulcrum.