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john in la

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Well at least no one was killed. The old man in this accident only suffered a broken leg and a few broken ribs.

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Word has it the old man was working on the plane to get it running well enough to sell. He had taken it out on his personel runway and was running back and forth with out ever really taking off just to see how the engine was running. Do not know if he hit a hole or what happened but the plane fliped end for end.

Just about anything and everything within miles of this air strip was once owned by this family. In fact the last name of the old man and the town or really village they live in is the same name.
Slowly but surely it has been sold off piece by piece over the years. What was once prime sugar cane fields is now chemical plants.
 
let me try those pictures again.

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I wonder if he had bothered to strap in. No more serious than the damage to the plane is, I'm surprised he had any broken bones.
 
looks like it might be a old navy trainer , cant really tell there is more damage than it looks it looks like it tore the engine off the front, and its hanging down about a foot
 
Looks like a WWII era Stearman Navy dual open cockpit trainer. Part of one letter showing from under the tarp looks like a "Y" in "Navy". The instructor sat in the front seat and the student in the rear.

Navy and Marine student pilots used to call them the "Yellow Peril".

They were used in flight school at the Naval Air Station at Memphis, and other places. There was a story out that one student forgot to buckle his seat belt once. The instructor pulled the plane into a loop, and at the top of the loop while the plane was inverted the student fell out. All the way back, the instructor was trying to figure out how he was going to break the news to the commanding officer that he'd lost a student out of his airplane. About the time the instructor landed and taxied up to the flight line, the student walked up dragging an opened parachute.

Even if he forgot his seat belt, at least he had the presence of mind to pop his 'chute.
 
John,,, I'v seen that happen some years back,
what happened, is the pilot who was not use to the aircraft, was trying to keep the plane going stright with the rudder peddles, and hit the Brakes instead, and flipped the plane.

IF your going fast enough, it will flip,, and that is not a good thing for sure...
 
You are right. Going to fast hit the brakes instead of the rudder peddles and over she went. Guy was killed at the Lakeland Fl Flyin a few years ago. He was doing a high speed taxi and hit the brakes. I never flipped a tail dragger
but I did a "groundloop" when I landed with a strong crosswind. Just touched the wingtip and scrapped some paint off. Scared the S... out of me. I was flying an old Aeronca Champ at the time.
 
It's pretty hard to flip by hitting the brakes while on a grass runway, The grass is just too slick. I taught in a stearman, and a SNJ and never came close tothat in either. I think He must have hit a hole or got into the long stuff on the side of the runway.
Dad always told the story of a gritty old WWII instructor who would hit his student on the back of his head when he was ready to solo...with his control stick, then throw it out of the plane. A smart a$$ student heard about it and brought an extra stick with him. When he was hit on the head, he signled O.k. and threw his extra stick overboard too!
 
Thank you sir,,, yes,, it happened to me also, but I did get control before it went over, just luck for sure... keep up the good flying...
 
In 1954 I helped a crop duster friend that ran the
airport in Levelland Tx convert 3 stearmans to crop dusters. He did all of my dad's crop dusting.
I used to ride in the hopper with him when not dusting. Also many years later in AZ., A friend of mine used my runway and parked his N3N biplane
at my house. It looked a lot like the stearman,
but was a complete different plane. He had put a
600 hp P&W on it.
 
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