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FlyingFortB17
 Post subject: Close call for a Yak
PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:55 pm 
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I would've landed and changed my pants right away. Notice the announcer stops speaking, uncertain of what outcome would unfold. I can't believe the prop did not strike!
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Man he was lucky he did not crash, I'm sure he had to clean out his pants. :shock:
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Whoa! :shock:

Anyone know where or who that was?
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The markings almost look like this YAK:

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Any idea who's it is? Those pictures were taken at Langley AFB in 2004. I would have guessed Yagen's / Fighter Factory's but I thought their's was blue.

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Yippes!!!
Anybody know where and when?
He may have recovered off the runway, over a lower spot in the grass.
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We did this a couple of years ago, and it all got rather heated. Dan McCue, I believe. A VERY lucky man.
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Yikes!

How many G's did he pull?!

I don't think I would have done that roll after that pullout....


Lucky guy.

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That is a Yak 9-UM that used to belong to a couple of guys out of Memphis. I maintained that airplane for years. It was purchased by a fella out of Alabama and he was letting some folks up in the northern states use it for that airshow right after he bought it. This was certainly a close call.

The airplane is based back in Alabama now.

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I bet this guy had a pucker factor of "10" and some mighty sore arms as he was pulling back on that stick!! :shock:

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Maybe I am too paranoid about things that come off the Internet. Does it appear that the Yak seems to "jump" up a bit after the bottom of the pull up? And the announcer didn't say a thing about him being unusually low at the base of the maneuver? Lack of prop damage?
Could someone have doctored the video?
Just a thought.
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No doctoring. It's all real. It happened at Andrews a few years ago.
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Yep, definitely real video. No damage to the airplane.
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I believe it was Sean Caroll and not Dangerous Dan.

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Ollie wrote:
I believe it was Sean Caroll and not Dangerous Dan.

You may well be right Ollie. I remember the last thread a couple of years back, Col.Rohr got involved and it all got very heated. I'm going from memory, as it looks as though the thread got pulled as I couldn't find anything through the search facility.
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