ORIGINAL: littlecrankshaf
ORIGINAL: ram3500-RCU
The plane may have little or no energy, but that prop sure does.
Sure, but an aircraft going 60, 80 or 100 and swinging a prop 7000 (probably much more rpm in this case) has many times more energy. Also more time to react, with 3D aircraft generally, compared to other errant aircraft. 3d aircraft are much safer than the typical WWII lead sleds doing their impressive strafing runs or a jet burning some worms.
I watched a guy flying a diamond dust type plane at 175MPH+ doing on the deck flyby's probably 20 or so feet away from the pilot's stations (over the runway). I pretty much hid behind a small building and had my son go sit in the truck until he was done flying. Very impressive, but holy crap did I not feel safe. If that plane would have had a freq hit or flutter, nobody would have had any time to react. [sm=surprised.gif]
We've beat it to death, but no matter what style of flying you do, there are safe ways to do it and dangerous ways to do it.
