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  1. robbreid

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    #1 robbreid, Sep 14, 2010
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    This is the moment when a stunt glider slammed into a runway in front of 15,000 horrified fans at Shoreham, West Sussex.
    Amazingly pilot Mike Newman, 35, crawled out of the wreckage of the high performance Swift S-1 aircraft after the cockpit broke up on impact.
    The former racing driver suffered three broken vertebrae in the accident, but doctors expect him to make a full recovery.

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  2. Kds

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    CAPTION CONTEST !!!!!!
     
  3. drjohngober

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    #3 drjohngober, Sep 14, 2010
    Time for airbag deployment
     
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    Thank goodness it's a rental.
     
  5. MaxPower

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    #5 MaxPower, Sep 14, 2010
    gravity sucks !!!
     
  6. Jedi

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    #6 Jedi, Sep 14, 2010
    Hmmm... that doesn't feel right.
     
  7. RBM

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    #7 RBM, Sep 14, 2010
    I should stick to driving cars.
     
  8. Jedi

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    #8 Jedi, Sep 14, 2010
    "How'd that pavement get up here? Weird..."
     
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    "WHHOOOP WHHOOOP PULL UP"
     
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    #10 BMW.SauberF1Team, Sep 15, 2010
    lol...I wonder if it had a stick shaker...prob not.
     
  11. MaxPower

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    #11 MaxPower, Sep 15, 2010
    his aircraft needed 10,000 feet to pull out of a stall ... he was at 9,990 feet ...

    :eek: :eek:
     
  12. MaxPower

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    #12 MaxPower, Sep 15, 2010
    his prob shook a damn sight more than the plane's !!!

    :)
     
  13. marknkidz

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    #13 marknkidz, Sep 15, 2010
    "thankfully the crap in my pants absorbed some of the impact...and i only broke 3 vertebrae."
     
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    Snap
     
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  16. Jedi

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    #16 Jedi, Sep 15, 2010
    "Hmmm... why's the tail still in the air?"
     
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    #17 tazandjan, Sep 15, 2010
    I think Bobby left out a step when he told me how to dive bomb.

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  18. 430rcks

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    #18 430rcks, Sep 15, 2010
    Hahahah :p
     
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    #19 donv, Sep 15, 2010
    I don't have a funny caption, but I do think it shows how much difference the lack of energy inherent in sailplanes makes in an accident.
     
  20. Jedi

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    #20 Jedi, Sep 15, 2010
    Indeed. Had he been powered, those 3 vertebra would be the only things NOT broken.

    Jedi
     
  21. Bob Parks

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    #21 Bob Parks, Sep 15, 2010
    Your caption brings back memories of when I inadvertently snap rolled a BT-13 and all of a sudden I saw ground where the sky should have been. Yeah, WEIRD. Luckily I was higher than the glider pilot.
     
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    #22 toggie, Sep 15, 2010
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    Caption #1: Okay, that landing was a little firm. Well, at least the stall horn was blaring nice and loud during my flare. And, look, even better, I'm on the center line!

    Caption #2: Be careful opening the overhead bins. Some settling of the baggage may have occurred during the flight.
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  23. teak360

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    #23 teak360, Sep 15, 2010
    And it also looks like the left wing absorbed a fair amount of the hit.
     
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    #24 davebdave, Sep 15, 2010
    "Any landing you can crawl away from is a good one"
     
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    #25 donv, Sep 16, 2010
    "Bob will stop at nothing to win the spot landing contest!"
     
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