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Damn! Those floats sure do drag!



 
 
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Old August 26th 03, 01:19 AM
Kyler Laird
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Default Damn! Those floats sure do drag!

We watched the movie "Trapped" recently. The good guy had a
floatplane (C182?). I thought that was cool. Then he had to
take a phone call while flying. He pulled the engine so that
the bad guy wouldn't know he was in a plane, but he had to
shove it into a 1,000-3,000 fpm dive! He did it twice - once
over water and once over land. He barely made it each time.

Those floatplanes are *dangerous*!

--kyler
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Old August 28th 03, 03:37 PM
Andrew Crane
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"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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We watched the movie "Trapped" recently. The good guy had a
floatplane (C182?). I thought that was cool. Then he had to
take a phone call while flying. He pulled the engine so that
the bad guy wouldn't know he was in a plane, but he had to
shove it into a 1,000-3,000 fpm dive! He did it twice - once
over water and once over land. He barely made it each time.

Those floatplanes are *dangerous*!


No - cutting the engine to take a phone call is *dangerous*



 




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