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A Very Simple Reason Not To Do That Inverted Low Pass!!

Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:20 am

Image

Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:22 am

Yeek

:shock:

Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:27 am

Dare I ask what happened to the pilot?

regards,

t~

Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:55 am

originalboxcar Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:27 am Post subject:

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Dare I ask what happened to the pilot?

regards,

t~


.... or the poor bloody photographer standing underneath!

Richard

Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:02 am

Is this recent news? Any background story?

Mike

Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:15 am

I saw this photo a year or two ago so it's a little dated. I believe it was at an auto race track. Never did read what the outcome was. I saw some great video taken at this location. If I can find the link I'll post it here. It wasn't in the U.S. Good-I found the link, BAD It's no longer working :(
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Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:29 am

Holy Mackeral,

Nice photo capture. But what was the pilot tryin to do in the first plane ?

Paul

Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:07 pm

The accident happened during practice for the 19th FAI World Grand Prix in Tokyo, November 2003.

Alexander Krotov was the pilot. Amazingly, he survived, but was very badly injured.

TJJ

Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:22 pm

Makes me think of my friend who thankfully survived his crash after his Sukhoi came apart during his aerobatic routine practice.

Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:33 pm

TJJ wrote:The accident happened during practice for the 19th FAI World Grand Prix in Tokyo, November 2003.

Alexander Krotov was the pilot. Amazingly, he survived, but was very badly injured.

TJJ



Okay, yeah this looks like it's on the inside of turn one at Suzuka, just outside of Tokyo.

John

Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:21 am

JohnH wrote:Okay, yeah this looks like it's on the inside of turn one at Suzuka, just outside of Tokyo.

John

Except it's the Twin Ring at Motegi. :wink:

Video link

Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:13 am

Finally ran across a working video link again. Fantastic footage and the woman pilot is really hot!


http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005 ... ing-p1.php

Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:09 am

A similar screwup is the reason Joann Osterud doesn't fly airshows anymore.

John

Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:32 am

JohnH wrote:A similar screwup is the reason Joann Osterud doesn't fly airshows anymore.

John

When did she stop doing aerobatics, and what did she do?

T J

Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:24 pm

She was doing a low pass at Yuma in twilight in 1997 and misjudged and hit the ground. She was thankfully ok but didn't do a show again.

John
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