The span of two floats is probably wider than the legal road
width in most states.




"Peter Duniho" > wrote in
message ...
| "Tater" > wrote in message
|
ups.com...
| > [...]
| > one way to beat IFR i guess. wonder what the costs are?
wonder why the
| > transport? no time to see if any dammage.
|
| Airplanes do occasionally get moved around not under their
own power, for a
| variety of reasons. Avoiding IMC is an incredibly rare
reason for that
| (you'd have to *really* need the airplane to be moved, and
have no hope of
| VMC for weeks for some reason), and I doubt that's what
was going on with
| the airplane you saw.
|
| More often, it's a matter of maintenance or recovering an
airplane from an
| accident, that sort of thing. You don't say what
orientation the airplane
| you saw was relative to the truck it was on, but given
that only one float
| was attached, it sounds a lot like a salvage operation to
me. Probably
| broke the other float off during a bad landing or takeoff.
The wings may or
| may not have been damaged in the accident, but removing
them before
| transport would be typical in any case.
|
| There are smaller airplanes designed to be trailered, so
you don't have to
| pay for a hangar or in the case of a floatplane can put
them down a boat
| ramp, but a) you wouldn't normally see them getting moved
with a semi, and
| b) they would be transported with both floats attached
(when so-equipped).
|
| Pete
|
|

"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> The span of two floats is probably wider than the legal road
> width in most states.

That's the silliest thing I've seen in awhile. If you'd ever seen a true
"wide load" on the highway, you'd know better than to write something like
that.

Peter Duniho writes:

> That's the silliest thing I've seen in awhile. If you'd ever seen a true
> "wide load" on the highway, you'd know better than to write something like
> that.

Why not just disagree and leave it at that? Are personal attacks
really necessary?

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"Mxsmanic" > wrote in message
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> Are personal attacks really necessary?

Why do you care? You're refractory to personal insults, remember?

Bye Bye Anthony. I won't be back at my PC this year, and won't see your
posts after midnight. I've turned you into a pumpkin.

I'd like to wish everyone else a troll-free new year.

Steve Foley writes:

> Why do you care? You're refractory to personal insults, remember?

Because others are not. Additionally, it wastes time and bandwidth,
and it reflects poorly on the person doing it.

> Bye Bye Anthony. I won't be back at my PC this year, and won't see your
> posts after midnight. I've turned you into a pumpkin.

I don't understand this.

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