The River Run

[PilotKeri]

This reminds me of when my dad and I would go flying in his J-3, we'd take it down that low in the floodway. I loved Floodway Flying. :)

[leviterande]

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[HARRYFRIGGINPOTTER1]

thats one way to make a cub look fast. Sure would suck if there was a power line crossing around there

[SacredAfro]

be honest... are you allowed to fly that low? I know i would along with many other pilots, but seems a little sketchy haha. Very cool video and nice flying

[jtkent28]

I wish they would allow one or two days a year when you could do this up and down the Merrimack river in MA. Haul ass down the rivet, cruise under the bridge, would be so awesome...

[levelat350]

LOOKS LIKE FUN.BEAUTIFUL SCENERY. AT THE END OF THE VIDEO,LOOK AT ALL THE BIRDS!!!

[RonyWithoutPony]

Too risky

[jmillski1]

nice bird avoidance there at the end

[testpilot51]

The Cub is the worlds safest airplane...It can only go fast enough to barely kill you!

[outlaw1972]

There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots....lol

[flanksteak6]

How do you keep a worm on your hook when you are trolling that fast?

[jizzmonger]

It's only when you get that low do you realize how much ass you are hauling when you fly.

[LJDRVR]

Sure looks like fun. I'm taking it that you've never had an engine quit on you? If you had, you probably wouldn't have put yourself in such a situation. Don't take this as a lecture or me disapproving of your actions - aviation is ALL about freedom. Take this as somebody concerned for your well being. Do you have shoulder harnesses? If not, spend the money and wear them. Also, if you're going to do low-level flying in an airplane with welded steel tubes next to your head? Please wear a helmet.

[eprevhay]

im not jealous.. im not jealous.. im not jealous..

heck who am i kidding

this video is awesome! i wish there was scenery like that down here where i am.

5/5

[LinnTractorNut]

Almost looks like Vroomans Nose coming up on the left as if flying north up the Schoharie?

[chueffer]

For the ultimate River Run, check out "Moyes Dragonfly"River run.

[flynlownslow]

Excellent

footage.

this is what flying is all about

[ebcbball]

see the birds at the end?

[FFTVAviation]

I know this insane but just imagine races organised races along rivers. Like rally driving in aircraft. Of course the winner would probably be the personal still alive at the end of the day but if you could make the trees soft, how thrilling would that be.

[youareallchumps]

we used to do this along rivers, called it hovercrafting :)

[LTF85199]

wow, cool, what a sight, just like the birds, and just like driving a 3D Car. I want to make a plane like that!

[kitfoxflyer]

Nice- I have a video I wanted to post you guys flying down a river but you not accepting vidoes?

[barryb83110]

I flew a Super Cub along the Snake River south of Jackson Hole, sometimes looking for bodies, most times for fun, and there was a wire depth gauge stretched across that river above Lunchcounter that made me paranoid. I was always asking my observer, either Dusty or Ed where that thing was. One day a very good pilot hit it because you couldn't see it unless you knew it was there. Dusty and Ed recovered the body. Check things out carefully. You never know. Low and slow is magical, but dangerous.

[suppergenus]

@barryb83110 was that fletcher anderson?

[barryb83110]

@suppergenus I heard all of this second hand from my friends who recovered the body. They called to say the guaging wire finally claimed it's victim (name?). He was a good pilot who wrote books on flying and was on his way to conduct a class. The wire had no obvious supporting towers, was very close to the river, hard enough to see when floating the river and nearly impossible to see from the air regardless of the sun's position, very important in that narrow canyon. He never saw it.

[glideric]

FUN flight for sure !!! Excellent !

[akomara1]

this is why God created airplanes

[pecanpatch]

Very cool.

I've done this on the Flint River in my Airbike ultralight.

Guys you fly the river several times above tree top level before getting that low to look out for cables and such. You would never do this on a section you have never been b4.

Taylor the pilot was in the back shooting the video, that was a passenger in the front(but he was probly doing the piloting chores)

[rayven2012]

Be very very careful doing this. In an area your not familiar with this is plain stupid. Pilots are killed every year from flying along rivers. Every river in the U.S. has water metering which is done by a suspended one inch cable across the river to measure the cubic feet per minute flow rate. If you find one of these metering statiion cables in an aircraft flying low over the river you are DEAD! Powerlines are also frequently crossed over river channels.

[wtrav8r]

I love doing this. Alwas makes me feel like a Pod Racer zooming past all the trees

[hyper4lifedude]

imagine if a salmon jump up infront of the cub while you were flying low and got PWN3D wby the propeler!

[kerravon42]

very very cool. You're a mad genuis. Go the cub!

[cemm5]

very nice. yea sometimes the most basic thing is the safest one.

How fast were u going while flying that low??

[sikcol]

Awesome. On of my favorite aviation quotes applies here... "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world...it can just barely kill you." (Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot)

[mdickinson]

Holy crap! That's LOW flying! What kind of plane was it?

I'm not going to ask how that would have turned out if the engine had quit...

[N400JR]

Piper Cub. Live fast, die young! ;-)

[tayloreasley]

haha I think the live fast part is a little much (talking about the cub) lol What year and where u located?

taylor 46' n92446

[tayloreasley]

One more question...why is the pilot in the front?

[almasi72]

@N400JR lol! The word "fast" and "Cub" ought not to be used in the same sentence! ;)

[JustinAndersen]

@mdickinson The best kind of plane!