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If only you flyboys did dios, that would make a great one, right when it sticks in the and, with the rear up in the air
Looks like the pilot could walk away from that, so that makes it a good landing. IF they could reuse the plane, it gets upgraded to great landing.
Bet the pilot had some pants that needed cleaning, though! [:D]
It looks like he landed with too much power on. Or maybe it was a bad attempt at a go-around or touch-and-go or something.
If it was me, I’m sure I’d be pulling pieces of the seat out for several days.
He had way too much power, notice down flaps and the props were turning so fast even after stopping on the beach. He was too close to the shoreline to be feeding so much power. Even when landing very fast, the plane will slow down considerably after reducing throttle power.
I’ve flown shotgun in a Goose twice. There are a lot of things to hit your head on in that cramped cabin! I hope nobody was injured.
The pilot has to add a lot of throttle when steering in the water. There’s no water rudder, so you have to use thrust to push air against the rudder. The other thing about steering these planes in the water is that below stall-speed, they are always leaning on either the left or right pontoon, meaning that the airplane is always in a left or right turn. You will notice in this video the pilot over-corrects for the first turn, which causes the plane to roll over to the other pontoon. Then that causes the airplane to veer hard in the other direction!
Given his options at that speed, he certainly would have been much better off to chop throttle even if it caused him to run aground. But I think that’s a tough call for a pilot. It’s like making a conscious decision to run your car into something!! You almost always swerve, right?
I’ll never forget my first water take off in a Goose. The pilot made a 45-degree turn around a rocky peninsula during the takeoff run! It was rather like being in a speed boat when it rounds a curve.
I sent a link to the video to someone I work with and got this back in responce.
Here’s the story on this Goose being filmed for a movie:
The camera crew set up on Tamarindo Beach, ready to shoot the approach
and landing for the movie. But instead of flying from Cabo Velas,
approaching Tamarindo from the west along the Playa Grande coastline,
the big Grumman twin came roaring down the river from the north,
putting on a show for the camera. On board were the pilot, “Hoot”
Gibson, and local resident and California board shaper, the late Mike
“Doc” Diffenderfer.
Approaching Tamarindo, the pilot started a right turn to follow the
estuary, but his height was insufficient. Presumably he suddenly
became aware of the power lines which cross the river at that point,
and was forced to fly below them. The right pontoon caught the water,
and jerked the aircraft to the right. Overcorrecting, the pilot put
the left float into the water, and the aircraft swerved to that side.
Gibson applied full take-off power to get the aircraft back into the
air, but it careered from the river onto the beach, where it
ground-looped and came to a stop. The whole incident was filmed, and
eventually became part of the movie.
“At this point,” said August, “we saw fuel spraying from the aircraft
onto the sand, and there was a distinct danger of a fire or explosion.
As we approached the 'plane, the doors opened and Hoot and Doc jumped
out, fortunately both unhurt. From a nearby beach house, a resident
came running, carrying a big club and shouting at the pilot that he
was in a national park, and polluting the beach. We managed to calm
him down, and the incident ended at that point.”
Eyewitness Dean Butterfield adds: "I was up the hill looking over the
estuary, watching Hoot Gibson fly the plane through it. He was doing
touch and go’s in the estuary, I was wondering why he felt he had to
do that in there. As he came out to the mouth I think he saw the cable
stretched across at the last minute and tried to duck under it. He
caught the wing tip and stuffed it into the sand.
By the time I got down to it, there were a lot of people around. I
took pictures and made a T-shirt from one."
Officials of Minae also attended the site very shortly after the
accident, and charged the pilot with flying in a protected zone
(Parque Marina las Baulas). As a result, Gibson’s license, obtained
over several years, was withdrawn after one brief flight.
“As it happened, the club-bearing resident did quite well out of the
crash.” August continues. “The plane suffered damage to a wing and one
of the propellers, and parts for a vintage seaplane are not procured
at your local NAPA store, so the aircraft had to sit for a year or so
while repairs were made. During this time the aircraft was parked in
the resident’s back garden, he and his family being paid for caretaker
duty against theft or vandalism. I believe someone of the family slept
in their garden ornament every night.”
The day after the accident, filming continued with a scene where
supposed crash passengers August, Wingnut and Pat O’Connor climb
cheerfully from the Goose, carrying their boards, and run off to the
surf.
Seriously concerned that accident investigators or other officials
might confiscate the film shot up to that point, Director Bruce Brown
hired a friend to hop a Sansa flight to San José, thence to Los
Angeles for processing. Fortunately, the film escaped customs
examination but, arriving in Los Angeles, it was delayed a couple of
days en route for the processing studio by the Rodney King riots,
which occurred in the vicinity of the studio.
The Goose was eventually repaired and flown out of Tamarindo.
Endless Summer II was released in 1994.
Now that’s a cool story
Hi Guys
It’s not that bad,my wife parks like that all the time.
Chris[oops][B)][B)]
HAAAA! [swg]
I’d say they got away pretty easy
Anyone else notice the people on the beach just standing there like that kind of stuff happens every day?
I was wondering about that. [wow][yeah]
And I wasn’t sacred at all. I asked of we could go around the block and do it again[:-^]