Flying Machines

[nomadpete]

Yes, I do know there is a well known site nearby, devoted to everything about flying.

 

But that's for serious stuff, and Ian would rather see the trivial distractions over on this side of the fence. Call it the 'naughty corner'.

 

For instance, this video of assisted floatplane STOL takeoff.

[Jerry_Atrick]

That is dangerously cool!

[nomadpete]

Do amerakans use their own planes for target practice?

 

 

https://youtu.be/jqiZiIKAnnw?si=Afsco2d7mElGd78A

[onetrack]

A local crop-duster and farmer by the name of Gerald Repacholi pulled that stunt here in W.A. and had his pilots licence suspended. He took off from a moving trailer at Jandakot with a floatplane, after seeing it done in the U.S.

 

Repacholi then became the subject of a CASA programme designed to force him out of the industry, and his fights with CASA are legendary. He went to jail for a couple of years for perjury.

He managed to keep flying and crop dusting, but ended up having a serious crash that effectively ended his flying career. He also went bankrupt with his farming operations, expanding in a period, where several bad seasons occurred.

 

See "the evidence of Gerald Repacholi" heading, in the court case in the link below.

 

https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/AATA/2006/578.html?context=1;query=Repacholi;mask_path=

 

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/wa-pilot-survives-air-crash-and-blaze-ng-ya-336974

 

Gerald Repacholi died in 2017 at age 70, but his "cowboy" record in aviation still lingers on. I'm fairly sure he died from cancer, possibly initiated by numerous factors in his rough and tumble life.

 

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/gerald-repacholi-obituary?pid=187224835

 

Edited 9 hours ago by onetrack