Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Friday, March 18, 2011

STOL!

Footage from last year's STOL competition in Valdez, AK.



Some of those guys are landing and taking off in 100 feet or less of ground roll. Sure, those are "race planes", but they still have to be super pilots to do that.

This year's competition is on May 6-8th.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Neat!

Nangleator said...

Makes you wonder about some of the hair-raising situations in which they use those skills.

willis said...

I can appreciate STOL ops spending most of my A&P years working on Twin Otters and Dash-7s in the Rocky's. Never heard about this gig...awesome!

Jenny said...

Lars! Paul! Oh cool!!


IIRC from being there last year, the silver cub with the skull and crossbones was pretty kitted out. Paul's cub is the same one he uses for workaday stuff at his lodge Ultima Thule - and aside from those great big tundra tires is about as stripped down as you can get - not even an electrical system!

Like he says... hours and hours and hours..