Plane Nearly Crashes During Air Show

[DizZa]

http://www.break.com/index/plane-nearly-crashes.html

HOLY SMOKES THAT WAS CLOSE!

[stuart1044]

Talking inches there

[expat]

A bit of a brown trouser moment. I wonder if he found any grass in the oil cooler..................even the commentator was lost for words for a second or two.  

Matt

[murjax]

That's way too close.

[Canuck.]

looks like a Yak 7 or 9!
do you know where this was!
the snowbirds and blue angels are visible in the shot!
there are only at a couple of shows where they are both there!

[JA 37 Viggen]

I've seen that Yak before. At the MAAM Airshow.

[Isak922]

I think he wins that "How low can you go" contest  :o Sure beats out the A-10, the Harrier, and the Spitfire for sure  ;D

[Alonso]

Hmmm it looks like R/C to me :-/

[Ells_228]

Hats off on the recovery and carrying on with the roll. I wouldn't wanna be in that cockpit when inverted after that lol

[F-16Viper]

WOWZA!!!

Lol, some of the comments are hillarious  ;D

[it] is called a touch and go, however the landing gear is supposed to be down and i dont think ur supposed to scrape the fuselage on the ground

[beaky]

It actually made contact- if you pause at that moment, you can see a short-lived trail of dust or whatever coming off the radiator inlet cowl. He started that maneuver way too low...  :o

[Sir_Crashalot]

If it scraped the ground, wouldn't the prop be destroyed?

Crash

[Isak922]

If it scraped the ground, wouldn't the prop be destroyed?

Crash

Possibly, unless he had a decent AoA there to make it so only the rear part of the fuselage hit... No idea how much would be required for the prop to clear the ground though  :o

[beaky]

If it scraped the ground, wouldn't the prop be destroyed?

Crash

No. The intake on the P51 hangs quite low; not lower than the prop in level flight, but below the prop at the attitude it was at in the clip at the point where it makes contact.
 Try pausing it- you'll see what I mean. He's just rounding out, probably pulling back a bit more than he'd need to if he had more altitude, flirting with a stall, and the A of A is quite high at that moment. It really looks to me like the belly just "kissed" the runway as it began to climb again... the telltale being that wisp of dust or whatever that appears briefly, trailing off the radiator scoop.

[alrot]

He ruined the grass ,you know how much a garderner earn these days?



Iuuufff That was really close