HUD view of a near-miss
"Roger" wrote in message
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Likewise back in the 60's there was a "Flying Farmers" fly-in at
Midland's Barstow airport (3BS). The airport was basically covered
with airplanes.
I witnessed two planes, the classic landing one on top of the other. I
no longer remember the top one but the bottom was a Piper Cub. The
top plane's mains rolled right over the Cub's wings almost from
trailing edge to leading edge forcing the Cub down. Of course at this
time the pilot on top realized something was wrong and pulled up. The
Cub nosed down and rolled 90 degrees, but recovered almost
immediately. His right wing tip was only inches off the ground with
people scattering to get out of the way.
No injuries and no damage except to maybe a few pair of shorts.
The other definition of an "accident".
Of course this doesn't count as both were tube and fabric rather than
metal. :-))
BTW the Beech factory had a Debonair there as a demonstration plane. I
took one look and said, "I'm going to have one of those some day!".
Little did I know it'd be that same airplane about 37 years later.
"It's deja vu all over again" - Yogi Berra
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