https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GflVGc6Yet4
Seriously! Landings must be a lot of fun. If you have any spare lawnmower engines you can die this way too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GflVGc6Yet4
Seriously! Landings must be a lot of fun. If you have any spare lawnmower engines you can die this way too.
Those lawnmower engines are probably as powerful as some early WW1 engines.
Must not have been a windy day.
I spent the whole video expecting that guy to wind up in hospital. Back to the days of early flight 1903 style, in an aircraft that looked like it belonged in a kids' Disney cartoon The sound effects alone were awesome Brave chap or crazy?
Thanks for posting Gary.
He is a braver man than I am Gunga Din!
No helmet either.
So did I when I saw the name Grosjean !
Apparently built to take 2 × JPX PUL 212 single-cylinder piston engines, 11 kW (15 hp) each
..or.. two PBS VB TJ20 210 newtons (47 lbf) turbojet engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_Cri-cri
So someone fitted the jets to the same airframe.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ZGhPZEkZ0
And in 2015 an electric powered version was the third electric powered plane to cross the English Channel.
Last edited by flash; 06-16-2021 at 00:58.
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
I had to do a double-take on the plane registration!
well, its got good pilot visibility.
All I can say is thank you all for a good laugh.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
The possibilities are only limited by imagination, it seems.
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