Warbird Information Exchange

This guy has more luck than sense Just glad he and his wife are O.K. and no one got hurt be sure to watch the video http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4038264

Would this fall under the heading... if at first you don't succeed ....?

Yes it would! Looks like the wrecker dude ended up hauling it anyway. I feel for this guy. I had an electrical failure on my first solo x-country flight and put down at a private runway and was able to get a ride back to the airport. my knees felt like jello!

Tim Landers

I see they managed to get it on a trailer AFTER the accident! Wonder how the insurance company will handle the claim.

I had a neighbor who owned a Geronimo/Aztec. He was flying himself home from a WWII reunion on the east coast. When he got over Mississippi he realized he was almost over the field where he did his wartime training, he circled once and continued on his way. He got about 5 miles out and it was time to switch tanks, he did so, and things started sputtering, he switched back but now he was too far out to reach the field. He picked a road lined it up, landed it and quietly coasted into these nice people's yard. Turned out he had a fuel leak on the one side and it had siphoned out during the flight.

He got some gas, emergency folks blocked the road, he fired up and taxied out. As he added power and got to about 40 knots his wingtip hit a roadsign, spun him around and he totaled the airplane.

Turns out Mississippi doesn't use breakaway signs !

Well, his first failure was running out of gas. Interesting that he hit both the semi and the fire truck on his attempted takeoff. This guy has poor judgement all the way around I guess.

I can't even begin to fathom what he was thinking!

Darwinism at work again. You'd think that 'wingtip clearance from vehicles' might be something you'd want to think about. What's even more funny is that the other side of the street doesn't appear to be in use...

I'm just finishing up a new book about Nascar legend Curtis Turner it's a.....a new book. He was killed in his Aero Commander on October 4, 1970....strange he was killed after an engine failure while just cruising, when you read the book you read alll the really stupid things he did in airplanes, like taking off with no runups or checklists, taking off from church parking lots and barely clearing trees and backhoes, etc. I couldn't believe it when I found this book the day before the 35th anniversary of his crash.

John