thats awesome...yea wind
Some great STOL properties.
Cheers
Pat
"Some people might say that freedom is being alone in the bush with the only sounds being the murmurs from the birds ... but I believe freedom is at 5000 feet with no other sound than the engine roaring."- William Hutchison, a young man taken from us far too young (16).
With just a touch more wind, He could have landed in reverse!
That has to qualify as the shortest light GA landing ever! It was what, all of one inch or maybe less?
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Man, that's what I call SS TOL!! Super Short Take-off and (especially) Landing.
I never knew those planes could hover...
Kidding, folks, I know it's the wind.
Pat☺
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What aircraft?
Early (very early) Harrier?
Jim
NAVIGATION; The art of knowing where you are without having to crash into it first.
That's awesome. I saw some youtube vids of these planes landing on hills and plateaus a while back, but this one takes the cake.
He would have won this comp:
https://youtu.be/Y7Jwde4EAVw
Cheers,
"Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there".
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