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Big kudos to Harrison Ford for a terrific recovery from a dire aviation situation, engine failure on takeoff.  It appears that he turned his PT-19(?) around and landed on a golf course with minor injuries.  Of course, minor injuries are not minor to a 70 year old man, so he may still have some other things to deal with than his apparent cuts and bruises.  However, take a look at the densely populated area from which he had to chose a place to land and the path through the trees he had to navigate to get the aircraft down on the golf course.  The dude has some skills.  The force was with him and some damn fine skills certainly minimized collateral damage to people and homes closely packed in the area.  Good on you, Harrison! 

To take a look at how difficult this can be, use one of our fine WWII aircraft found here and simulate a similar situation in any of the WO* sims.  Chop the throttle to 0% at or around 500 to 1000' and try to turn around and make the runway you just departed.  Big hint, most accidents occur in this situation by the pilot stalling the aircraft.  Keep you flying speed and remember, when you turn, that minimum flying airspeed goes up proportionally to the angle of bank used for the turn.  You will learn quickly that what Harrison did is no small aviation feat.

Boom!!!!  Yeah buddy.

That would be me....amongst many.

RIP, brother.

No person on this planet is in need of God's mercy that these deluded people. 

But not mine........

Nice show and good music to boot.  Thanks.

• Phantom II

RIP

OK, I'm picky here........Lend Lease, not Lend Leace.

• Nice photos.  Thanks for sharing.

I have officially retired and am intent on doing very little.  20 years flying jets for the USAF, 23 years writing software for the US intelligence community, and I am done.  Returning to my home in Alabama, looking forward to spending my remaining time flying with my friends here at Combat Ace.  So an old Tiger hands off the reins to a younger breed of cat, who is better than I ever was.

I wish the final event in the Olympics was not the invasion of the Ukraine. Kinda limits my admiration of the hosts.

MiG-21 was a short-legged sweetheart of an interceptor.  MiG-25 was the brute force fighter of all time.  I've seen the ugly end of both, but admired them as adversaries.

Dave, didn't know about your Dad.  Prayers and hopes for a speedy recovery.

Well said and well done!

Wow!  Talk about a lifetime hobby.  Better than chasing broads, drinking, or gambling any day.

Dave, you should see Lone Survivor.  Tough, but fairly done.

"...beauty would not beauty be if it didn't fade..........."

The staff had to be in on it.  But what were they going to do, send the guys responsible to Vietnam.  Oops, they were already there.......

Macelena, ever done any driving in Rome...............they definitely are all Formula 1 tryouts.

Looks like he was travelling too fast and smacked into some sort of vehicle in front of him.  Came out of the drivers seat pretty quickly though.  Sad that the whole deal appears to have been preventable by a little more care in driving technique. 

Scary in that gas bottles could be turned into torpedoes real quickly like this.

I'm with Dave here.  Worthwhile to watch some tremendous athletes do their thing and ignore the stray dogs (some are actually sports journalists off their leash).

I'm with Caesar on this one.  Only exception would be a civilian airliner.  A target is a target and only one way to make sure you don't have to fight him tomorrow.

OK, let's all guess how many virgins this dude got.  He did off 21 unbelievers...............

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