Re: Landing on a container!

[Mi Vida Loca]

I previously took a few rather sarcastic (it's just my nature) shots at this and must admit to having a bit of a laugh over this, but the reality is the skill to pull something like this off would be far in excess of even a really good pilot. As previously noted the "runway" would be totally obstructed from view. Yes there are ways around this, you could have someone up there with paddles like in the old WWII carrier days but somehow I think finding someone who would be interested in standing close to the whirling prop is going to be rather minimal. >From much of any other vantage point the perspective would be too far off to properly guide the pilot to the proper touchdown point. Also unless you are very experienced at tight formation flying and I mean TIGHT capable of operating within a 2-3 foot box you will have a disaster, no question about it. Also your runway will be generating wake turbulence, so there you are flying formation with this truck and being slammed around by the wake turbulence off the container, sounds like fun to me!!!!!! If you want to get a feel for this I suggest you fly behind another coupe in slow flight, I suspect a 20' nose to tail separation would be about right to give your the same feel as the turbulence coming off the container. Please do this exercise with lots of altitude, the wake turbulence off a slow Coupe is pretty powerful, enough to loose control so you will want 3-4000 feet to recover if you mess up. If any of this doesn't sound appealing to you then I would suggest you find a new project such as pulling the wings off and taxing cross country. Hey, I'm sure no one has ever done this one, a real record just waiting to be set and one you could live to tell your kids about and still make "America's Funniest Home Videos". I like to think the Author of this proposal was just jerking the group's chain and has a hell of a sense of humor but he could actually be serious.




Dave
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