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Amazing photos - pilot survives impact with runway . . .

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  1. robbreid

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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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    Time for airbag deployment
     
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    gravity sucks !!!
     
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    Hmmm... that doesn't feel right.
     
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    I should stick to driving cars.
     
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    "How'd that pavement get up here? Weird..."
     
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    lol...I wonder if it had a stick shaker...prob not.
     
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    his aircraft needed 10,000 feet to pull out of a stall ... he was at 9,990 feet ...

    :eek: :eek:
     
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    his prob shook a damn sight more than the plane's !!!

    :)
     
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    "thankfully the crap in my pants absorbed some of the impact...and i only broke 3 vertebrae."
     
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    "Hmmm... why's the tail still in the air?"
     
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    Hahahah :p
     
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    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.
     
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    Indeed. Had he been powered, those 3 vertebra would be the only things NOT broken.

    Jedi
     
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    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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    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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    And it also looks like the left wing absorbed a fair amount of the hit.
     
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    "Any landing you can crawl away from is a good one"
     
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