buzzing a Moscow highway

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:33:39 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

I don't get it. Why would a STOL, slow airplane fall like a sack of nails?

Have you ever SEEN a Wilga? http://www.pzl-okecie.com.pl/wilga.htm

They are relatively heavy, and excessively draggy. One flight report
I read described how when are landing and you pulled the power
downwind at the end of the runway, you'd better be turning for the
runway immediately because the bottom just drops out.

A glider it is not.

Corky Scott

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:33:39 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

I don't get it. Why would a STOL, slow airplane fall like a sack of
nails?

Have you ever SEEN a Wilga? http://www.pzl-okecie.com.pl/wilga.htm

They are relatively heavy, and excessively draggy. One flight report
I read described how when are landing and you pulled the power
downwind at the end of the runway, you'd better be turning for the
runway immediately because the bottom just drops out.

A glider it is not.

Corky Scott


I love this from the site above on the Wilga...

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

A four seat multipurpose aircraft of STOL class which may be widely used as:

a.. An executive A/c
b.. Air club general use, parachuting, glider and banner towing and
training A/c
c.. Air ambulance
d.. Patrol A/c
e.. Agricultural A/c

What kind of executive?

Corky Scott wrote:

On 18 Jan 2005 09:22:40 -0800, "
wrote:

They are still available. There's a guy in Highgate Vermont who is
bringing them in and selling them. While watching one circle the
field last summer I heard the following: "They may be ugly, but
they're sure slow". :-D

Just as a side note, there's a german female pilot flying a wilga from
germany to namibia, africa. Towing a sailplane! It's supposed to be the
longest tow, aiming for a new record. The website is in german, but they
have some cool pictures... Here's one to start:
http://www.mymarco.de/namibia/galler...ction=showimag
e&image=0008.jpg, taken over Italy.

Cheers,
Jens

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HECTOP wrote:
Two genius (Beavis & Butthead with an airplane) friends of
mine, today just outside of Moscow, Russia.

http://www.maxho.com/lj/balbesy.jpg


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The road is supposed to be single lane. And the two cars sitting in
the middle of the road stopped are supposed to be State police. That
is the standard of road buzzing here in the USA.

And the picture must include the scared cop's face.

I have not ever done that, but that is the goal of such odd behavior.
To stunt.

And stunting require the ever present power lines to be dodged.
A stupid and dangerous stunt.