Cool Float Plane Takeoff For Wayne

[Cast-Away]

This one is for you Wayne, sorry the video post options don't work on this IPad, so you will have to copy and past the link.

 

[irishfield]

Thanks.. but nothing new. I actually saw that video the night it was shot, as it's a guy off an airplane site I hang out on. They've been launching float planes that way for decades.. but for some reason this video is making the rounds as the latest greatest idea. I've done a couple in the yard launching them off my 32' flat bed. Easy part is getting the truck up to 50 mph in the first 1000 feet... the hard part is stopping the truck and 4000lb trailer on a grass 2% grade in the next 1000 feet, before I crash into the forest at the end of the strip.

 

Was a guy in Collingwood that use to take off AND land his Beaver onto a moving trailer, until Transport Canada claimed he was endangering the driver of the truck (which he wasn't in any way)

Edited May 5, 2014 by irishfield

[Terry]

yeah the landing is more impressive

[Dave Bailey]

If you haven't got amphibious floats, and you're not near suitable water, it's an ideal way to get off the ground. Airspeed is airspeed, doesn't matter how it's attained.

[irishfield]