"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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I respect your right to disagree :-)

But will you respect it in the morning?

We used T6's quite often in my operation and I've got a ton of time in the
airplane. It's not the cleanest thing in town aerodynamically by a long shot
:-)) Although it's obviously true you can put the tires of a T6 ( and other
airplanes as well from what I hear) in the water as these guys are doing, no
matter what speed you would be using to plane the tires, if you had an
engine problem during the run with the tires in the water, I'd be willing to
bet the ranch the aircraft would settle in so fast due to parasite drag that
you would cartwheel it in for sure.
The T6 is a drag queen and slows down REAL fast when the power comes back.
Of course this is just my personal read on this stunt. The guys doing it are
top sticks and I'm sure know the risks involved. If I'm not mistaken, one of
them, Scully Levin, is a 20K plus driver with literally a ton of experience
flying just about anything with wings on it.
Pilots like this do these things knowing full well what might happen. They
love this kind of stuff :-)) I've spent my entire life around people like
this. They're some of the finest and most capable pilots you would find on
the planet.
The bottom line on doing things like this stunt is that you do it because
you like the work.
The chance that the work can bite you in the ass someday is simply part of
the accepted risk.
Dudley Henriques