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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Feb 12, 2010
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The definition of passion, 17 years in the making: Paul Weston's second flight in a plane he built entirely from scratch. June 24, 2009. An 82-year-old student pilot made a hard landing on Lake Sammamish this morning, slightly damaging his home-built experimental aircraft and requiring a tow back to shore from a rescue boat, At 1:30 into the video it gets pretty exciting! I'm not sure how wise it is to test your own design with only 30hrs TT as a Sport Pilot! http://vimeo.com/5364455
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Daniel Paul Myers - Feb 12,2010
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Wow thats crazy
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Eric Batterman - Feb 12,2010
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NTSB thinks it was a stall. Looks like it from the video. The previous video on the same website gives a quick glimpse into the cockpit. Doesn't appear to have an altimeter or VSI. I'm all for people designing, building, etc, but no excuse for not having proper training. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20090625X24118&key=1">http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20090625X24118&key=<br>1</a>
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Feb 12,2010
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Doesn't look like enough wing on it to me.
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Feb 13,2010
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While I notice a couple of design compromises I would prefer not to make it actually looks quite interesting, especially the blended wing style.<br /><br />Certainly looks like a stall in, just lucky he was already so low. As a 'Mature' low time guy I don't think early water flights of a new plane are the place for a 30 hour pilot, especially one of so many years. That's scary.
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