Is this safe flying?

It's kind of like asking if a puffer fish is safe eating...
 
Myself, I was impressed with the vast selection of emergency landing spots available to them in the unlikely event their Rotax engine stopped making noise.

-John
 
I've seen at least one similar video of a Cub doing a takeoff like that without the engine running at all.
 
Easy peasy. The pilot was already in the airplane. James Bond had to catch his flight:

 
As long as you don't bust the tail going over the edge, I'd say it's all good clean fun.
 
I think a lot of the dive was for the camera. Watch the elevator. His tail is up, 2 engines running strong in a light plane, didn't need to dive that far. Sure is dramatic though.
 
He looks safe doing it.

He knows what hes doing, just like flying IFR looks unsafe for a VFR pilot.

Just a different type of skill set
 
Geico266 said:
I think a lot of the dive was for the camera. Watch the elevator. His tail is up, 2 engines running strong in a light plane, didn't need to dive that far. Sure is dramatic though.
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Similar to this picture taken of BD Maule coming out of the hangar. It's dramatic and great advertisement but when I went to the Maule factory I saw that the hangar is about 600 feet long and open, with large tarmac areas at both ends.

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Not to be a spoiler but Bedford was a little guy and he probably had about 5 gallons of fuel on board when he did this. Still, it was one heck of a shot. :rolleyes:
 
Sac Arrow said:
It's kind of like asking if a puffer fish is safe eating...
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NineThreeKilo said:
He looks safe doing it.

He knows what hes doing, just like flying IFR looks unsafe for a VFR pilot.

Just a different type of skill set
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That's what I'm saying. People do it, they live, and they do it again. I can think of hundreds of scenarios I could be in as a pilot that i wouldn't want to be in vs that one.
 
No fatalities - check
No injuries - check
No damage - check
plane can be used again - check
People on the ground not endangered - check

Safe flying. leave citizens alone.
 
Sac Arrow said:
I've seen at least one similar video of a Cub doing a takeoff like that without the engine running at all.
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I think you are thinking of the video "DEAD STICK TAKEOFF" the plane isn't a cub it is a Highlander, it is on YouTube.
 
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