Don't try this at home. (Water Skiing)
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Don't try this at home. (Water Skiing)
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
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- Bruce Fenstermacher
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Not that I'm suggesting that anyone try that but I understand that you need to lock your brakes so your wheels won't rotate and will skip. Otherwise they roll and get pulled into the water.
Just in case you find yourself over a clear pond with to much time on your hands.
Just in case you find yourself over a clear pond with to much time on your hands.
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- cessna170bdriver
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Ha! Yep. I certainly didn't mean my comments to appear to approve of such stuff.cessna170bdriver wrote:I don't think I'd try it in anything that doesn't have a keel.gahorn wrote:I sure wouldn't try it in anything that 1- has a springy leafspring gear, 2- has wheelpants, 3- has a nosewheel.
Miles
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- cessna170bdriver
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If I remember correctly, there's another picture that goes with this one, that shows the airplane on its back in the water...alaskan99669 wrote:170's can water ski, as shown here:
Don't ask me details about the photo as I found it on the internet and don't know the history.
Miles
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You mean this picture:cessna170bdriver wrote:If I remember correctly, there's another picture that goes with this one, that shows the airplane on its back in the water...
Miles
But according to the accident report it happened when the engine sputtered on short final to a gravel bar.
Corey
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Floats, Tundra Tires, and Skis
'53 170B N3198A #25842
Floats, Tundra Tires, and Skis
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Sequential as in "not the same day" or are you saying the plane was rebuilt and water skied after the accident? The reason I ask is because I read where the salvage helicopter dropped that plane during recovery and I could only imagine it was a total loss after that.N170BP wrote:Those pictures are not sequential (the 170 water-skiing and then the
same airplane flipped over on it's back). My neighbor is/was friends
with the subject aircraft owner and has "briefed me" on those shots.
Corey
'53 170B N3198A #25842
Floats, Tundra Tires, and Skis
'53 170B N3198A #25842
Floats, Tundra Tires, and Skis
According to legend, it was a pilot approaching a gravel bar and touching down just a wee-bit early who discovered the ability to water ski. (It was also a pilot landing too early while approaching a gravel bar who once flipped a certain airplane.)
While water-skiing is a fascinating and daring display, I personally consider myself too timid and inexperienced to try it...and I don't ever expect to have what it takes to try it, either.
(And you guys all know how timid I am.)
While water-skiing is a fascinating and daring display, I personally consider myself too timid and inexperienced to try it...and I don't ever expect to have what it takes to try it, either.
(And you guys all know how timid I am.)
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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