By: mmitch - 16th November 2004 at 18:55
Perhaps he was wearing noise cancelling headphones. 🙂
mmitch.
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 16th November 2004 at 17:31
I am really quite shocked by the flippancy shown in this thread. As we all should be clearly aware aviation can be a dangerous pastime and it is vitally important that proper safety measures are taken and that standards are maintained.
What particularly concerns me about this photograph is the lack of planning. We should all be scrupulous with our pre-flight planning and we should ensure that habit and familiarity should never be allowed to creep into what is a very important practice.
The example shown here is, quite simply, shocking. Here we have a pilot who has allowed things to get way in front of him. By failing dismally to ensure he kept to the strict limits of his pre-flight routine he has managed to take off and fly without starting the engine, requiring him to climb out and start it in flight.
You’d think the lack of noise would have been a giveaway but this guy was apparently just too busy to do things right.
By: Stieglitz - 16th November 2004 at 15:56
If he restarted it the wrong way, the camera ship pilot would have had trouble keeping him in shot. 🙂
mmitch.
No no no! The camera ship is a harrier. :rolleyes:
J.V.
By: mmitch - 16th November 2004 at 10:09
If he restarted it the wrong way, the camera ship pilot would have had trouble keeping him in shot. 🙂
mmitch.
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 16th November 2004 at 00:14
Nurse, Moggy’s dribbling . . . .
By: Moggy C - 15th November 2004 at 23:50
Ignore all that rubbish above.
This was the brief flirtation with rubber-powered flight around the time of the Suez crisis and attendant petrol shortage.
Initially flights were limited to the number of turns that could be put on the rubber at ground level. Then the famous company Flight Refueling, founded by Sir Alan Cobham came up with this sophisticated way of extending the aircraft’s range.
The picture above shows Oswald Rutan, father of little Richard, (Not Little Richard) in preparation for his round the World epic flight. Sadly the attempt was terminated with an elastic snap in the Upper Volta region and the imprisoning of Oswald for making improper suggestions to several young women to do with removing their suspender belts. 😮
Moggy
By: John C - 15th November 2004 at 23:17
Nothing wrong with that – he’s just stepped out for a cigarette, thus complying with the latest ban on smoking in confined areas.
JC
By: Stieglitz - 15th November 2004 at 20:17
Good point there Janie. Adventure starts there. It could very well be a stunt because the plane is flying at a ‘safe’ altitude to do such a crazy thing. No parachute though. The man must be a real daredevil! :diablo:
J.V.
By: Chipmunk Carol - 15th November 2004 at 20:09
I don’t know, but if that guy hadn’t tried to trim his finger nails at that really inconvenient time, I don’t reckon the engine would have stopped.
I’ll take a guess that it is a planned stunt, hence the camera ship being handy and the fact that it is really high and not over a built up area.
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