Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe
February 8th 08, 12:58 AM
"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" <The Sea Hawk At Wow Way D0t C0m> wrote in message
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> "Edward A. Falk" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >,
>> gatt > wrote:
>>>
>>>Too bad about the comments, but, this is an interesting video. Pretty
>>>resilient airplane.
>>>
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcURmi2wS7o&feature=related
>>
>> Dumbasses. It's a miracle that plane didn't flip over or worse.
>> Looks like he didn't even have a prop strike. Very very lucky.
>>
> This video has come up bevore and as I recall, there was no intent to land
> on the car - Contrary to what the "commentator" claimed...
>
> What I don't recall is what they were really trying to do before the
> contact between the airplane and the car.
whaddayaknow, I found it.
"This film was made at Ursel Air Base, in Belgium, while filming a police TV
series called "Flikken" (Cops). It was a pursuit between a car and a plane
and it almost went horribly wrong -- there was never any plan to land the
plane on the car."
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/weird_aviation_videos.htm
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Geoff
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news:...
> "Edward A. Falk" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >,
>> gatt > wrote:
>>>
>>>Too bad about the comments, but, this is an interesting video. Pretty
>>>resilient airplane.
>>>
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcURmi2wS7o&feature=related
>>
>> Dumbasses. It's a miracle that plane didn't flip over or worse.
>> Looks like he didn't even have a prop strike. Very very lucky.
>>
> This video has come up bevore and as I recall, there was no intent to land
> on the car - Contrary to what the "commentator" claimed...
>
> What I don't recall is what they were really trying to do before the
> contact between the airplane and the car.
whaddayaknow, I found it.
"This film was made at Ursel Air Base, in Belgium, while filming a police TV
series called "Flikken" (Cops). It was a pursuit between a car and a plane
and it almost went horribly wrong -- there was never any plan to land the
plane on the car."
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/weird_aviation_videos.htm
--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.