Warbird Information Exchange

Easy. You determine what parameters need to be met and you don't perform unless the conditions are within the envelope. Plenty of people have waterskied everything from L-19s, to Piper Cubs, to Stearmans all the way up to Skyraiders. I wouldn't do it either because of the risks, even as a tightly controlled demonstration- but some people go air racing and others drive top fuel cars or barefoot waterski. I'm just a reasonably risk averse person I guess. Some day though I'll probably slip in the shower and crack my head open and that will be the end of me.

Especially in a plane with almost zero ground clearance like a Lancair.

80 years from now, TIGHAR will claim they solved the mystery & found him in Loch Ness.

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Sad for his family & and passenger (and aviation)Yup, some of the most simple things can be dangerous, what a strange world we live in when THE MOST DEADLY Sport is STILL "FISHING"!! ( more people are killed fishing than in any other sport!) So you never know, flying 450 mph +, but watch out for falling out of a row boat!

Kid I went to school with was killed fishing. Line caught around some power lines so he waded into the creek & tried to knock the line lose with a length of wet rope with predictable results.

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Those who possess real knowledge are rare.

Those who can set that knowledge into motion in the physical world are rarer still.

The few who possess real knowledge and can set it into motion of their own hands are the rarest of all.