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Close to dying? Purposefully on Runway
JPTRR
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RAILROAD MODELING
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Posted: Saturday, January 17, 2015 - 10:41 PM UTC
Father and son at the end of the runway almost won the Darwin Award. It would be better without all the drunken Alaskans yammering away.


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We have it on tape how our pilot preaches from the cockpit window to the assembled villagers that he will use every inch of available runway and THEN SOME beyond that, nevertheless we had a father and son standing in the way of the plane plus two others while a village schoolteacher and professional pilot was arguing with them about getting off the runway...Quite amazing, as said we have 7 camerapositions...Nobody died but the son did actually go through the Prop arc and had the luck to pass through the blades with no harm to him. R3350's run 2950 RPM on takeoff and the reduction gear reduces Prop RPM and at 94knots it was some space between the 4 blades of the Prop. "- Only in Alaska! -"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVR_HMAx5uc
HARV
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Posted: Sunday, January 18, 2015 - 04:53 AM UTC
And these people are allowed to breed and vote!!


Thanks for sharing,
Randy