Reno Air Race Unlimited 1991 Lancair Prop Failure

[stubby692007]

BOSS

[droplano]

Boss Dog!!! and held the center line

[mrblujet]

Excellent job !

[evmo0102]

He even planned the speed so there was enough to make the turn off !

[Revenunt]

like a boss

[aratidwell]

Good job!



[ATLRCFlyer]

What can we learn from this video? FLY THE DARN AIRPLANE!! Correct.

[ultimatefxx117]

u should never try to "grease" a landing in a emr.. just stick it down as soon as possible

[supermansam565]

@ultimatefxx117 Not necessarily true. Pushing the airplane down with too high of an airspeed could lead to bouncing and an overall rough landing. If you have left yourself plenty of runway there is no reason to not touch down at the lowest possible airspeed.

[ultimatefxx117]

@supermansam565 this is true given the correct plane and situation..

[dixiewife47]

Superb flying ! I'm sorry about the prop failure, but glad to see your ok .

[asystole599]

Great job!  Glad you were okay.

[barrelOFawesome]

crabbed it out and center striped it like a boss!

[majfunkmeister]

good place to have any type of failure, could have even landed anywhere around that aerodrome

[flyyves]

That is awesome, great job pilot. Very very nice job, and you even rolled out off the runway following the yellow line !!! Hahaha, amazing stuff.

[mrssweetpotatohead]

lucky what was left of the engine stayed with the plane.

[LancairIV]

This was not an MT prop. It was an experimental Cato 2 blade prop that failed at the hub.

[bornflyboy]

0:39 - "awww, it's OK girl"...good thing you consoled her, since she got you back on terra firma in the end. Nice flying.

[Shanejayburd]

Testing a new prop at Reno.... Seems kinda late in the game dontcha think?

[illeagl]

Good job. Dive and let her float

[holywells]

WOW! He was totally lucky that the engine stayed in the aircraft!!!! When most props fail like that the engine will shake so hard that the mounts can not withstand the strain and the engine will separate from the airframe resulting in a fatal crash if the pilot has no parachute and ample time to exit. What a talented and lucky pilot!!!!

[stevethepilot]

And a nice landing to boot!

[sentineloffreedom]

lol I'm amused by the heavy breathing, but silence, of the pilot when the safety personnel arrive :P he's like ".... God damn that was scary...."

[audioentertainment]

good work!

[yakovlev3a]

At 1:15 it looked like he was going to dive into runway, but without power that is the safest way to come in.

Props to the driver!

[shawnson133]

@yakovlev3a

in a lancair the stall speeds are rather high compared to a cessna or other common aircraft for example, a 172 will stall around 45 kts and best glide is 65 kts, a lancair VP wil stall at 63 kts and best glide is close to 90 kts so he had to come in at what looked like a very steep angle

[vivitar45]

was that a large bird the crashed into the plane

[ATLRCFlyer]

The propeller has left the party...

[FlightLevelHeaded]

Two Words: Home Built

[shawnson133]

@FlightLevelHeaded

the prop was not "home built" it was an MT. what does being home built have anything to do with it?

[FlightLevelHeaded]

@shawnson133 Probably the fact that there are no requirements to be a licensed mechanic to work on a home built or experimental if you are the owner/builder and no limitations on what parts you put on an experimental/homebuilt.

[shawnson133]

@FlightLevelHeaded

ya and that was a certified MT prop so how did your comment pertain to the video?

[FlightLevelHeaded]

@shawnson133 Certified for what? For use on a homebuilt/experimental? No such thing....for a reason.

[shaneo0306]

you can hear how hard the pilot is breathing!

man that must have been hard to stay calm.

[micahmx85]

Hey i don't know if anyone reads plane&pilot magizine but i was reading the jan/feb issue and one of the articles entitled "Still Relentless" (pg. 20) the author Kevin Eldredge describes a situation that is almost exactly resembles this video, just wondering if anyone knows if this was Kevin Eldredge?

[Flightkid9]

@micahmx85 I read that same article! lol not sure if this is him though

[TruthinFilm]

massive respect !

Good training,

Good composure

Good God !

[TruthinFilm]

massive respect !

[gengiscanxxx]

Respect

[SlamDuncDrummer]

Lancair's are slippery so that prop must have had some serious drag to get down that fast.

[bullseatpizza]

2:36 "Everything Ok?"

Yeah im fine just had a prop failure, no biggy really :)

[aphex71]

respect  :yes

[MrGhostwhowalks]

Great presence of mind in the pilot minimising damage by prop-stopping it as quick as he could! It sure didn't look comfortable, but a good dead stick landing.

[GelandnaleG]

1:11pm Thursday (CST) - Time in Mississippi

[johnmohanmusic]

Nice job getting her back to ground!

[SlamDuncDrummer]

I would suggest a reconsider on that new propeller technology. Didn't perform very well when it exploded LOL... Nice job.

[yekralleahcim]

To bad someone on the ground wasn't filming it also. It would have been cool seein the plane come down with all that damage to it. Hats off to the pilot.

[Transam941]

This comment has been made a million times, but I am enamored by his flying. He even had enough momentum to taxi off of the runway, that was the icing on the cake! Excellent example of energy management.

[TimmyD853]

that was amazing nice flying!!!!

[robertgift]

Interesting video.

Good landing.

Well! Why not show the damage?

What caused the propeller to fail?

Good thathe fire department was there in case tires or landingear had been damaged by debris.

[Blackevo9]

Very well handled. Like the sigh at the end.

[ATLRCFlyer]

Well done. Didn't even block the runway. One for the books... Kudos to the pilot

[airmanjayl]

Well done! 

[Darthbelal]

sudden engine failure, a STEEP decent and able to keep the aircraft on the runway, you guys have any idea this is? Admittedly I've never flown a plane, but I have done practice on an RC emulator and it's damn difficult to do a steep decent and get the plane on the runway. Very well done, dammit.

[FlightLevelHeaded]

A little off center on that taxiway- no solo until you can improve.

[RainbowManification]

@FlightLevelHeaded give the guy a brake, he just lost his prop

[FlightLevelHeaded]

@RainbowManification Google sarcasm.

[andgate2000]

Bye Bye engine........or at least a strip down and inspection !

[fsafrvzves]

Glider Pilot.

[393WR]

Altitude, Velocity, Ideas: you must have ever 2 at least! ;-)

[leethebug]

exactly what lancair plane was this?

[MiketheXRbike]

Good work!!!

[danieldeibler]

Damn. When you say "prop failure", you really mean prop failure. I would have died.

Well...actually, I wouldn't have been able to start the plane, so I guess I'd be fine, sitting on the ground. :P

Do you have any pictures of the damage?

[bostsu2001]

teeterburo tower this is piper 202

I'm turning on the downwind leg

my landing's overdue

The stick is a burblin' in my hand

and I think I feel a stall

a bug's caught in the pito juice

and the gauges don't read at all.

(Commander Cody and the lost planet airmen, I think)

Oh yeah, and my propeller just exploded in my face.

[RedSurfBoy]

Way to keep your cool, those dead sticks

[FAV4RAV]

Listen hard at 24 seconds into the video...He calls in a mayday.

[milwaukeegregg]

the reason the horizon is tilted a bit is because this pilot is wiping the shit out of his pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[globemaster68]

didnt ever hear him or her declare an emergency???

[crash2161]

@globemaster68 ... talking on the radio is not a priority in an emergency. your first priority during an emergency and always for that matter is flying the aircraft. in primary a student is taught this: aviate, navigate, communicate. fly the plane, put the plane where it needs to go, talk to atc.

[DamnPilot]

@crash2161

transponder 7700 is also important

[crash2161]

@DamnPilot - right but again as time permits. if your not flying the aircraft every squak code in the world isnt going to help you

[DamnPilot]

@crash2161

ATC probably likes to know if they have to clear the runway for an emergency. You can tell them or (if not possible 7600) or switch to 7700. Then they'll understand.

[judah192008]

@DamnPilot 7700=engine, airframe or medical emergency

7600=comm failure

7500=hijacking

[SenorSpode]

@DamnPilot Of course they need to know. Declare a Mayday, they will clear the pattern and give you any runway. There's no time to set your Xponder, especially since you're in the airport pattern anyway. In this instance, the pilot has no knowledge of whether the engine is going to fall off at any time or not. After all, he shed a prop blade, the resultant vibration is known for separating engine and plane. When that occurs, game over.

[DamnPilot]

@SenorSpode

Yeah that's true. Depends on how many pilots. If you're with 2 pilots it's no problem to do the Xponder. I had a few weeks ago, I was overhead Soesterberg (EHSB) while the Radio stopped working. Then you've a problem! What should you do? We didn't decide to switch to 7600 because we where close to Schiphol A'dam Airport (EHAM) so they would think we would be B747 or something ;). I was flying and person in the back (flight instructor) tried to fix it. We returned to the airport.

[SenorSpode]

@DamnPilot Good call!

[boozeroyale]

@SenorSpode And I wouldn't worry about my transponder at an uncontrolled airport like Stead.

[SenorSpode]

@boozeroyale Indeed, but KRNO, which is very close to Stead, can be of assistance in such a matter, but since it's at Stead, it's not altogether essential, provided the incident started and concluded outside of the critical RNO TCA.

[boozeroyale]

@DamnPilot No ATC at Stead Airport.

[alduncine]

wow.. I guess this is why we practice so many times engine outs!.. the difference here is that if I'm short i just add the throttle... I bet is very different when is for real! Fantastic Job.. Q: What is the best glide speed on this plane?

[Flightkid9]

@alduncine best glide speed is never a fixed number, it varies from center of gravity, weight, atmospheric presure, temperature etc.

[karmic86]

Excellent landing. Hats off to you, sir.

[33jarhead88]

What amazes me, aside from the great dead stick landing and getting it off the runway, is that the guy doesn't say a damn word! The guy's cool and the gang. Most people (myself included) would at least have an involuntary "Holy $%*#"!

[LNC4P]

Great emergency landing!!! BRAVO!!!

[jrn77478]

Wow. Just wow.

I was there at Stead that day, standing in the Lancair pits, watching that plane come down the chute when this happened.

IIRC, they were using a new three-blade composite/metal prop (composite blades on a metal hub), and the thing failed right at the join. Took the top half of the cowl with it.

The vibration was so violent that it broke 3 of the bolts holding the engine to the mount. BTW, I do have, somewhere, some photos of the damaged plane. If I can find them, I'll share.

[childsca]

@jrn77478

Bump for the pics.

[jake224m]

Damm Good Pilot--!!!

[naderamin]

very good land

[silverbird58]

on top of that his windscreen bought too

[sbd45acp]

From catastrophic prop failure to dead stick touch down 1 minute 38 seconds. My ... How quickly your life can change...

[liquidworldvideo]

Good flying cool under pressure,

was it a wooden prop?

[leefuji]

That's skill !!!

[silverbird58]

this pilot does more before 10 am than most do all day! jeess

[itsmonti1]

Please post any videos and photos of the aircraft after the landing. Great job in handling the emergency!

[pilotsep27]

Do you have any vido or pics of the aftermath? good flying...

[chuck500cc]

Great job! How long did it take to pick the seat fom out of your bottom?

[RobertGary1]

I've never had a prop failure but I did have an engine quit on me once. Amazingly I felt no panic at all, actually a sense of calming. After thousands of hours thinking about an engine failure I finally had one. Fortunately the engine came back as I decended below the freezing level and I landed uneventfully.

[GingBread]

Nice Job!

Altitude- it's your friend.

[ryanspeed]

Well done!!! You guys are lucky to be alive!

A few men I knew who worked on aircraft back in the 40's to the 60's told me several aviators they knew of were killed testing new props.

[Wells1955ATC]

BLOODY HELL..... that is a skilled pilot to recover from that.

[VictorSeedorsky]

@Wells1955ATC you know nothing about flying and planes if you say that.. its standard procedur.. nothing hard..

[Wells1955ATC]

@VictorSeedorsky I would hope that I know something about flying. as the only thing that has stopped me getting my pilots license and going solo is that im 14. I am very sure that what that pilot did was skilled. He; recovered the aircaft after losing the prop, dived to the runway (at what seems to be steeper than 15 degrees) , executed a superb primary then secondary round out, and finaly perfectly held off the landing. That is skilled. :)

[t3553r4ct]

Nicely done! I had a flight instructor who had a good friend die from a prop failure because he didn't get the engine stopped in time. Well done!

[redhot916spd]

I would love to see pictures of this plane , the after math of it. I'm sure they are a sobering reminder. Congrats to this pilot, I'd fly with him/her anywhere

[jdhiner1]

He's lucky the engine remained with the aircraft if it had not the plane would be unflyable.

[bruno84]

@jdhiner1

Very true!

[SenorSpode]

Correct. Even losing a small amount of blade will cause imbalance and vibration enough to break an engine mount and separate engine from plane if not caught quickly. Then, without a ballistic chute, all bets are off. This happened to a Piper PAT-1: the engine separated from the fuselage following a blade separation. 3 people aboard were killed.

[dabambz]

A textbook example of a forced landing, but I didn't hear any radio calls =p maybe we just couldn't hear it.

[avq30r31]

i can hear a callsign and mayday at 0:24 just as the plane levels

[bobalong131]

Aviate-Navigate-Communicate, That order.

[KVLai]

This is a calm dead stick landing

[shakenama]

Excellent handling - very professional and calm - note how he kept climbing even after the prop failure to slow the prop down that much quicker... obviously alot of stress on the airframe during this

[red8864]

well done mate

[kenfo0]

Great job...scary, i'm sure. what was the chugging noise toward the end of the vid?

[WreckRman2]

That's the wheels...

[kenfo0]

i don't get it.....were they damaged or the landing area was bad?

[redhot916spd]

that was stressful, great job by the pilot!!!

[DualDesertEagle]

WTF happened? Did a blade go off or what?

[SteelSitter2]

You have GOT to check this out ... Dave Morss ... master pilot.

[33vortex]

That's a huge runway. I'd be impressed if he'd landed on a grass strip out in the bush. Just follow normal procedure and you'll be fine as long as you can make the runway. If you can't, that's another story and a whole new ballgame. Still, good piloting. However good piloting is to be expected otherwise you shouldn't have your licence.

[nbdyspcl03]

its how he handled the whole situation, not just the landing. most pilots, if faced with this emergency would have waited too long to shut down and the engine would have been torn from the plane. the length of the rnwy is irrelevant.

[33vortex]

Why wait to shut down a engine suffering failure? Especially in such a obvious case as this one. I don't disagree with you at all but imo if you don't shut down a engine suffering prop failure immediately you don't understand the consequences of such a failure. Like you say the engine could depart from the airframe at which point your options are down to the silk or the express burial service.

[1Gaumer]

i agree it takes a damn experienced pilot to react that quickly without a even a moment of hesitation.

[floundericiousWA]

I took flying lessons and soloed when I was a teen..the first thing and the most repetitious thing my instructor drilled into my head was "if you lost power NOW..where are you going to land"

Before you do anything else, get the airplane stabilized and pick a touchdown point. That's first-day, first-lesson stuff and it's damned essential...two thumbs up to the pilot of this airplane!!!

[kenfo0]

are you a jerk, or what? "yeah, the guy broke the world record, but that's to be expected by world record beaters...when running the 100m, just run as fast as you can for 100m and break the record, otherwise you won't".

[alane2526]

i like how he not only kept his cool and had a flawless landing, he had kept enough momentum after landing, he was able to clear the runway. Nice video, thanks for posting!

[BenetFleck]

Prop failure. Cool. Why I get to witness this is anyone's guess.

[stesta5074]

Its a Lancair IV and he's quite the professional. He's on O2 so he's not breathing that hard.

[MCP2002]

Nice deadstick landing.

Scary stuff.

[UberVette]

What, you don't take a deep breath after you almost shit your pants?

[poptartpencil]

why was he breathing so hard like he was going to barf at the end

[jacksoran]

wow great landing considering the angle of approach required. i wonder if i was single engine or multi.

[mahukalamata]

its a single engine because the engine is in the front. if it was multi then they would be on the wings on either side of the cockpit

[JManGuitar5150]

I'd say it looks like a single. Yeah, that would have to be a pretty tough landing, considering the speed he was probably traveling at right before landing.

[Ryan8775]

Training doesn't guarantee a flawless landing. You never know how you will react until your in the same situation. Pilot was calm great landing.

[melbournaut]

I'v had no trainng so im pretty sure what my reaction would be =)

[allevian]

Well, that´s the first thing a any pilot learns when getting a license. That was a boring engine out approach. With that RWY, no masterpiece at all.

But anyway...well done.

[chiefop]

Yes Forced landings are part of training but that was *for real* and first class, no raised voices even.Plus I think those Lancairs need alot of runway so very very well done.

[allevian]

If training did not work in reality - what´d it be good for?

And it´s an easy thing to do- I can tell you.

Especially if a Runway is right next to you.

Millions of glider pilots do so every day.

Anyway...

This RWY would have allowed a glide-approach for a 747.

[chiefop]

Tell you another thing every pilot learns, any landing you walk away from is a good landing.

Forced landings are easy are they? maybe on your computer.lol

[allevian]

Forced landing aren´t easy alltogether- but this one for sure, because there is a 10000´RWY right below this fellow. Yes- his tiny plane needs LOTS of RWY. (???)

By the way, smartass- I know what I am talking about.Don´t think hat everyone is just a computer-hero like you.

[chiefop]

Yes i can see that.you are talented.

[allevian]

Yes maybe.

But it´s obvious that you have no idea at all.

FSX-Pro?

[chiefop]

I dont know what that is, no C-172..just a Bush pilot.lol.

[quasiphatpaul]

you should try pulling back on the stick... just saying, helps keep you out of the bushes.

[Fishnflightbum]

Expensive glider!

Well judged engine out.

[blt40]

Eject Eject Eject.

[solitajre222]

balls of diamond!

[MSJDesign]

mad skillz

[liamsikes]

Pilot, you've got Titanium cored, Crome-moly covered, Brass Balls! One hell of a landing! Good skills , Calm nerves!

[HDaviator]

@liamsikes

Given that the pilot is a female, I would say she has brass ovaries. Just saying bro, just saying.

[mikef4irider]

@HDaviator

Really?

Dave Morss was the pilot. Google search 409L Dave Morss and click the first link.

[xTommY92x]

OMFG! Very very very very very nice Landing

[r32adt3db]

epic landing! way to go man.

nice p38 in the end there too.

[kakadz89]

Great emergency landing. What airplane is it?

[Shardith]

New propeller = Epic Fail.

Dave's Flying = Epic Win.

[sevenboarder]

wow, glad you made the runway!

[bbsombs]

nice job

[dothefun]

Handled it perfectly. Couldn't have been better. Very nice job

[oscar7771]

damm.,, that was lucky

[luixitox]

volviste a nacer

[krunkfunk360]

i doubt that thing was installed on any other aircraft :P

[coyotedrunkoncognac]

i just watched grace under pressure

my highest admiration to the pilot

what could have been tragic

instead becomes an invaluable

example of piloting thru an emergency

hope a little bit of it rubs off should the day ever come it's needed

thank you very much for this youtube

[EMaster9]

Well that was a steep approach, neccessary though. Nice flying skills.

[disgruntldtoad]

A+ prop, where can I purchase one?

[junotfranco]

ROFL!!!

[lowflyingcessna]

Well done. Cracked the windshield too. Damn lucky no debris came thru and into your lap. I've deadsticked a plane in once in my 18 years and like this one, a safe landing except I wound up on a street.

[ljackso]

Awesome piece of flying! I nearly crapped myself just watching!

[pooperscooper71]

I take it that the prop failed it's test?

[ViolentVendetta]

thats adrenaline XD

[inkjets1]

nicely controlled 5/5

[mikexray123]

KICK ASS PILOTING SKILLS

[casmof22]

What happen to the prop? It kinda looks like in hit a bird. Anyone know??

[Gunner7121]

it says they were testing a new prop it might have just broke apart

[earthtocolin]

lol... big SIGH at 1:59

[Alisterwolf66]

Textbook flying and a brilliant job of it. Scared the hell out of me just watching it!