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Offline FreeBorn

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Geneseo N.Y. Airshow 2011
« on: July 09, 2011, 03:24:49 PM »
Went to the local airshow today. Unfortunately there was a mishap just as we were arriving. One of the WWI replicas wound up in the corn but the pilot walked out unscathed. Actually the second mishap of the day. Early in the morning a single engine private plane with a V tail taxied where he wasn't supposed to, ignoring the ground handler who was directing him. He wound up boring a hole into a marshy area, totaling his aircraft. Idiot.The Fokker crash shut down the flying for quite a while so in the mean time I took some pics of parked aircraft. Pretty soon my wife's cell phone rang. 23 year old step daughter drama, rut roh! I let her be and wandered into the hangar, walking & gawking and taking more pics. She came and found me in no time. "Honey, we have to go".  :banghead: I asked her what was up. "She needs me". IOW, no straight answer forthcoming so this could mean anything from her boyfriend ran out of turtle wax for his monster truck to her horse has the hiccups again  :panic:. Shit. Just as the flying was starting up again too. Maybe I can sneak back down tomorrow. (As it turns out, I was right as usual, the sky was not falling but I'll spare you the details).

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Re: Geneseo N.Y. Airshow 2011
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2011, 06:26:10 PM »

Sweet.  I think I could drive this to work every day and be happy.
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Re: Geneseo N.Y. Airshow 2011
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 05:36:42 PM »
The airshow looks like fun.  I've never been to one. 
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Re: Geneseo N.Y. Airshow 2011
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2011, 10:26:32 PM »
Update/ correction.

Got the real scoop once the local county paper came out. The Fokker Triplane flipped on roll out into the adjoining cornfield and was destroyed. Fortunately only the pilot's ego was bruised. It was a replica, no original Fokker Dr1's remain. Von Richtofen's infamous all red example was lost during WWII when a bombing raid on Berlin destroyed the museum where it was showcased.

The first incident of the day is the correction. At the airshow I asked a group there what had happened when I saw the plane nosed down in the marsh. It was they who told me it taxied there. It did not. The plane was carrying four adults from the Buffalo area who came to attend the show. On his landing approach the pilot stalled the aircraft and it dropped twenty feet coming to rest where I photographed it. One woman aboard suffered a broken arm. Apparently the taxiing rumor spread because I heard it from several other people there as well.

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