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Old 06-11-2004 | 11:32 AM
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Tall Paul
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Default RE: GROUND EFFECT

ORIGINAL: banktoturn

That's a pretty dramatic effect on the life span of the plane.

banktoturn
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Actually, that was the 2nd time that plane had crashed there! When Ben Howard had it in the '30s, it had force-landed.
Riechardt had picked up the wreckage after 40 years, and rebuilt/replaced most of it.
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Here's a similar frame of one of Darryl's passes.. not much higher, but well out of ground effect. and 3 times faster, or 1000 mph! The sonic boom was extemely uncomfortable at 600 distant.. note there are people directly -under- the plane! That must have been really bad!
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