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  1. bbs911

    bbs911 Formula Junior

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    #1 bbs911, Apr 22, 2009
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  2. Chupacabra

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    #2 Chupacabra, Apr 23, 2009
    They were lucky to have that wide of a road available. Looking at those light poles on the sides...yeech, it could have ended badly. Glad it didn't!
     
  3. Rifledriver

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    #3 Rifledriver, Apr 23, 2009
    In a driveway and into a parking lot too.

    At least he didn't block traffic.
     
  4. agup48

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    #4 agup48, Apr 23, 2009
    That was a great landing.
     
  5. 2NA

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    #5 2NA, Apr 23, 2009
    Now the tricky part. ;)
     
  6. bbs911

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    #6 bbs911, Apr 23, 2009
    He was incredibly luck to find that road. If you notice the first time the engine fails, he is sinking at a pretty fast rate and it doesn't look like he has any viable options. It's only because he got the engine restarted that he was able to make that wide road. Incredible that there was no traffic either.
     
  7. James_Woods

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    #7 James_Woods, Apr 23, 2009
    What made the engine quit? I am skeptical...
     
  8. future328driver

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    #8 future328driver, Apr 23, 2009
    Call me a skeptic, but I do not think that the event just happened to happen while the camera was rolling (at 2 different angles no less). The engine did not quit the way it normally would in the event of a failure and it started up much to easy each time they tried a restart. I think this was staged. Notice in particular how much traffic there was going in the opposite direction of the landing and how there was NO traffic on the side of the road the landing was on, even in front of them. I would guess that this was a very well rehearsed demonstration for some type of training video where they had local law enforcement shut down a lane of traffic.
     
  9. bbs911

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    #9 bbs911, Apr 23, 2009
    Just my opinion, but no way law enforcement would shut down one direction and not the other for a dead stick landing. Too much risk. I'm guessing some sort of fuel starvation problem.
     
  10. James_Woods

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    #10 James_Woods, Apr 23, 2009
    Absolutely, Cops did not "shut down the highway". But there still is something vaguely fishy about all of this.
     
  11. Chupacabra

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    #11 Chupacabra, Apr 23, 2009
    Could be. Pretty dumb stunt, if so!
     
  12. snj5

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    #12 snj5, Apr 23, 2009
    well done.
     
  13. Bob Parks

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    #13 Bob Parks, Apr 23, 2009
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    I'm with you. Too down pat and set up for me. Looks and sounds like a Rotax so why did that quit. Having the cameras all set up is a bit opportunistic. Nice parallel road with no traffic, no wires crossing,etc.
     

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