tumbler 0 #1 August 28, 2013 http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2013/08/28/news/doc521d2d8d834ed607572524.txt#photo6 glad he is OK! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,384 #2 August 28, 2013 Looks like his beard is still OK! "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpwally 0 #3 August 28, 2013 I didn't know he was married ? Is it a jumper ? Glad to hear he made it out ok....smile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #5 August 28, 2013 Kids today aye? No sense of history (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NorrinRadd 0 #6 August 28, 2013 Nice to hear about accidents that wind up ok, sans deaths and injury Why drive myself crazy trying to be normal, when I am already at crazy? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #7 August 28, 2013 Nice job, Bill! $hit happens, engines go belly up but you did an awesome job of bringing it down, not hurting anyone else and walking away in one piece. I've been a passenger in a forced landing before and I love a pilot that keeps his head straight and flies the plane to a complete stop. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattjw916 2 #8 August 28, 2013 any landing you can walk away from is a good one; if you can reuse the aircraft again it's a great one NSCR-2376, SCR-15080 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mirage62 0 #9 August 28, 2013 What get's me is I bet Bill really looks after his engine. As a fairly low time pilot I do everything I can to baby that single engine but realize it can die.......Kevin Keenan is my hero, a double FUP, he does so much with so little Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 3 #10 August 28, 2013 mirage62What get's me is I bet Bill really looks after his engine. As a fairly low time pilot I do everything I can to baby that single engine but realize it can die....... A friend of mine from years ago had one. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082966/22-year-old-female-pilot-dodges-cars-makes-emergency-landing-busy-downtown-street.html Civil air patrol 172, was running perfectly till something snapped in the engine and turned the fan off. With as many things that COULD happen to cause total loss of power and remembering that even A&P-IA's are human, I think that we're doing pretty good. IIRC some bolt sheered off and cause the whole mess."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,384 #11 August 28, 2013 Ugh! Engine failure? At night? Landing on a city street? Yeah, I'd be pretty happy to walk away from that, too! "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 3 #12 August 28, 2013 Yep, she did an awesome job and even has become a member of the FAAST and spoken at several aviation events about it. "Miracle on Davis Street" I think they call it. She's got her Commercial and working on her CFI certificate now. I actually flew from Houston to Colorado Springs and back with her to build my X-C PIC/hood time for my instrument rating. Ironically, I know her from the Army. Her team was assigned to my unit to provide some communications support on my third deployment."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpwally 0 #13 August 28, 2013 Whats so funny about that ?smile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,384 #14 August 28, 2013 jumpwallyWhats so funny about that ? You didn't see all the squawking here when Booth took his 12yo daughter as a tandem passenger at the North Pole? It is at the 9:30 point in this video: http://growingbolder.com/media/sports/extreme/bill-booth-exclusive-access-314089.html"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
