One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! You need to wear that helmet. http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 Brad *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Oh heck... that's just a normal summer day on Lake Union in Seattle. Why do you think they call 'em "speed bumps"? <grin> Great link! Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA On Dec 18, 2007 9:09 AM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! > You > need to wear that helmet. > > http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 > > Brad *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
If I remember my Oregon history correctly, there was a float plane pilot practicing his landings and takeoffs on the Willamette River several years ago, and he managed to set it down on a canoe. BRC Quoting Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>: > Oh heck... that's just a normal summer day on Lake Union in Seattle. Why do > you think they call 'em "speed bumps"? <grin> > > Great link! > > Craig Jungers > Moses Lake, WA > > On Dec 18, 2007 9:09 AM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > >> One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! >> You >> need to wear that helmet. >> >> http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 >> >> Brad >> >> > -- Bradford R. Crain Department of Mathematics & Statistics Portland State University 724 SW Harrison St./334 Neuberger Hall Portland, Or. 97201 Phone: 503-725-3127 Fax: 503-725-3661 E-mail: crainb_at_pdx.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Dec 18, 2007 12:49 PM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > If I remember my Oregon history correctly, there was a float plane pilot > practicing his landings and takeoffs on the Willamette River several years > ago, and he managed to set it down on a canoe. Maybe he just figured another float couldn't hurt. LOL Craig Jungers etc.etc. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Craig Jungers wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 12:49 PM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > >> If I remember my Oregon history correctly, there was a float plane pilot >> practicing his landings and takeoffs on the Willamette River several years >> ago, and he managed to set it down on a canoe. > > > Maybe he just figured another float couldn't hurt. LOL I remember this well. Not much of a laughing matter for the two adults killed (propeller made salami slices of them). IIRC, there was a child in the canoe who survived. Pilot got off with a slap on the wrist. The aircraft was one of those with a large cowling which prevented the pilot from seeing straight ahead on final. I believe he did a flyby, saw no one on the water, and then did his approach and landing. Meanwhile, with no idea the guy was coming in for a landing, the family entered the open water the pilot had selected. This was not a section of the Willamette specially designated as an "airstrip," or in any way easy to suspect it would be. It was all legal for the pilot to land there; IIRC, the operative language (Craig can correct me her, I bet) was the pilot had to exercise reasonable prudence in making his landing spot choice. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Dec 18, 2007 2:39 PM, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote: > > The aircraft was one of those > with a large cowling which prevented the pilot from seeing straight ahead > on final. I believe he did a flyby, saw no one on the water, and then did > his approach and landing. Meanwhile, with no idea the guy was coming in > for a landing, the family entered the open water the pilot had selected. I have never flown anything that lands on the water on purpose but I can't imagine how you could not see a canoe over the cowling unless the pilot was "dragging" it in (lots of power but then high angle of attack to keep the speed down). Normally you have a nose down attitude until you flare for the landing and by then one would assume the pilot would lhave seen the canoe. This was not a section of the Willamette specially designated as an > "airstrip," or in any way easy to suspect it would be. It was all legal > for the pilot to land there Unless there is a restricted area or unless a municipal, state or federal agency has imposed a speed limit, one can land a floatplane or amphibious aircraft pretty much anywhere there is water. They land and take off in front of my lake house all the time. To my great delight. Wish more would. > IIRC, the operative language (Craig can > correct me her, I bet) was the pilot had to exercise reasonable prudence > in > making his landing spot choice. I wonder which part of "reasonable prudence" doesn't include watching where you're going. Gliders at the Ephrata airport land and take off on what would normally be thought of as the "apron" of an old B17 training base. The clubhouse is well off to the side and in order to get to the takeoff portion you have to walk across the landing portion. We had a club from the Puget Sound area come here and a dozen of their family members managed to wander across exactly where I was going to land in my glider. I managed to extend my final and missed them but not by much I bet. The coordinator for the airport chewed out the club President who got bad and wrote a nasty note about how rude he was. I suppose it's important to watch what's going on no matter where you are but sometimes it's not immediately apparent that there's danger. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 03:49 PM 12/18/2007, Bradford R. Crain wrote: > If I remember my Oregon history correctly, there was a float plane pilot >practicing his landings and takeoffs on the Willamette River several years >ago, and he managed to set it down on a canoe. In Chuck Yeager's book "Pressing On" (a really good read, BTW) he tell a story of a pilot that does fish plantings in high country lakes and the piloting skills required to plant fish in the small lakes in canyons in the high Sierra mountains. In one instance he pilot came over a ridge, executed a dive into the canyon, dropped the fish, then made a quick climb and banked out of the canyon. As he looked down he saw a couple of startled fishermen in a canoe right where he had dropped the fish. Apparently aerial fish plantings have a very high survival rate (somewhere around 90%) but perhaps not in that instance. >Quoting Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>: > >>Oh heck... that's just a normal summer day on Lake Union in Seattle. Why do >>you think they call 'em "speed bumps"? <grin> >> >>Great link! >> >>Craig Jungers >>Moses Lake, WA >> >>On Dec 18, 2007 9:09 AM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: >> >>> One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! >>>You >>>need to wear that helmet. >>> >>>http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 >>> >>>Brad >>> John Fereira jaf30_at_cornell.edu Ithaca, NY *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Dec 18, 2007 9:09 AM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > >> One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! >> You need to wear that helmet. >> >> http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 That is pretty obviously a posed video. Reminds me of some footage from the movie version of Farley Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf," when the DH twin takes off right over the guy (Mowat). -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
It's the opening scene from "Always", a 1989 movie with Richard Dreyfuss, Audrey Hepburn, Holly Hunter, John Goodman about air firefighters. On Dec 18, 2007 2:46 PM, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 9:09 AM, Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > > > >> One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! > >> You need to wear that helmet. > >> > >> http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 > > That is pretty obviously a posed video. Reminds me of some footage from > the movie version of Farley Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf," when the DH twin > takes off right over the guy (Mowat). *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
A great movie remake of a WWII film, A Guy Named Joe -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Bob Myers It's the opening scene from "Always", a 1989 movie with Richard Dreyfuss, Audrey Hepburn, Holly Hunter, John Goodman about air firefighters. > >> > >> http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 > > That is pretty obviously a posed video. Reminds me of some footage from > the movie version of Farley Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf," when the DH twin > takes off right over the guy (Mowat). *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
First time I opened this link, the list of videos on the right was topped by one about Odie the Horny Dog (or a title close to that) which was about as outrageously funny a pet video you can imagine. GaryJ Bradford R. Crain wrote: > One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? > Yes! You > need to wear that helmet. > > http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 > > Brad > ** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Horny Odie the Wonder Dog. But you didn't hear it from me. Brad Quoting "Gary J. MacDonald" <garyj_at_rogers.com>: > First time I opened this link, the list of videos on the right was > topped by one about Odie the Horny Dog (or a title close to that) which > was about as outrageously funny a pet video you can imagine. > GaryJ > > Bradford R. Crain wrote: >> One more thing for kayakers to worry about. Does it ever happen? Yes! You >> need to wear that helmet. >> >> http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=241646 >> >> Brad >> ** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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