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Stearman nose-over... from the front cockpit! (Read 359 times)

Jun 8^th, 2010 at 9:37pm

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/06/08/VI2010060802370.ht...

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Reply #1 - Jun 9^th, 2010 at 2:56am

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Now that is a different outlook Grin

Tis a rather tough aircraft....... I expected far more damage than it seemed to have sustained.

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Reply #2 - Jun 9^th, 2010 at 2:06pm

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I just saw that on my home page and was about to post it but you beat me to it.
Equipment malfunction or pilot error? Maybe the brakes locked?

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 11:08am

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patchz wrote on Jun 9^th, 2010 at 2:06pm:

I just saw that on my home page and was about to post it but you beat me to it.
Equipment malfunction or pilot error? Maybe the brakes locked?

Absolutely. The speed with which he flipped - you can hear the tires touch a split second before he goes. The CNN video shows serious smoke coming from each tire.

THIS IS NOT A PANAM CLIPPER

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Reply #4 - Jun 11^th, 2010 at 1:19am

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Big airliners abandoned their aspirations of takeoff and trundled back to the gate for a while. Dan looked glum, Mike looked glummer.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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