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Don Maxwell - Mar 23,2020
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Dennis Scearce - Mar 24,2020
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Reminds me of some of my early Searey landings.
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Ken Leonard - Mar 24,2020
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That was scary as hell.
Had a lake owner stop by my house one day to tell me how happy he was to see me flying off the lake because now he knew
he could with his lake amphib. I asked him what his plane weighed. No idea. I asked how long his water run was: no idea. I
suggested my plane was a 1/3 of his weight and I am off in 8 seconds. He insisted he could duplicate my performance. I
begged him not to try because when he crashed, my flying would be in danger. Our lake is 2000’ with a curve in the middle
and trees at each end. Easy for a Searey. Heck, I land across the lake and that’s 1000’.
Next weekend, he does about 5 low passes trying to get in and literally hits branches on the 5th attempt but puts it on the
water. My pilot neighbors walk over to my house when he starts engine to leave. None of us think he has a brain in his
head. His takeoff was so close to the trees we had 91 dialed in our phone and one guy was in his boat with the engine
running to rescue. The plane never returned. Years later after the guy moved, one of the Vietnam pilots admitted to
threatening the guy with violence if he ever landed here again.
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Jon Ladd - Mar 25,2020
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One time Frank Gracy was on my wing as we flew over a small lake. He asked me if I thought we could land there. I said “Sure! Do
you want to take off as well?
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Ken Leonard - Mar 28,2020
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JL - exactly. There is a famous army helo video when the pilot asks the copilot if they can make it between the two trees. “Nope†the
co answers immediately. The pilot proceeds to take of the rotor tips as he proves the co wrong.
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Ken Leonard - Mar 25,2020
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JL - exactly. There is a famous army helo video when the pilot asks the copilot if they can make it between the two trees. “Nope†the
co answers immediately. The pilot proceeds to take off the rotor tips as he proves the co wrong.
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Steve Kessinger - Mar 25,2020
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"O, ye of little faith."
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Don Maxwell - Mar 24,2020
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A guy who lives near Richmond and was my basic hang glider instructor and then flew an A-hull Searey until the blue fuel hose turned it into scrap, later flew a Lake from a 2000 foot grass field with 90 ft trees at the west end, but a relatively open approach to the east. He had no trouble taking off or landing, although he always took off east and landed west, regardless of the wind direction. But he had to pay close attention. And luck helped, too. I was with him one day when we passed through a wind shear while rounding out and dropped about 15 feet straight down to the grass, landing with a huge BONK. We got out expecting to see the landing gear struts poking up through the wings--but no, no problem for the Lake. It was a really rugged machine. It wouldn't have done so well hitting trees head-on, though. He didn't keep it much longer.
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Mark MacKinnon - Mar 24,2020
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My first flight instructor (and lake neighbor) owned a Lake Buccaneer. With that high engine, the Lakes have a more dramatic pitch change with power change than the Seareys do. He said if you lost the engine, you had to be "Johnny on the spot" shoving the yoke forward immediately (his words).
His Lake in the foreground. Earl Anderson's original Kingfisher in the background. Little Sebago Lake, Maine, circa late '70's.
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