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Uploaded by on Dec 25, 2006

A float plane taking off of land for the last time, starting its carer as a full time float plane.

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  • AWESOME! i can watch float planes taking off from trailers after doing maintenance all day every day and still be amazed.

  • A REAL STOL sorta

  • Cool! They should have used a GMC instead of the Ford. :)

  • awesome

  • thats why we strain the tanks.. poor guy

  • nice. now show me how to land on that thing

  • ...the front jury struts broke, plane tipped forward, nosed in and flipped. We all screamed down to the plane, and discovered to our relief the pilot was OK, albeit upside down. The plane's back was broken; It was a total loss. The culprit: Excess water in the tanks, and subsequently the fuel system. It was a beautiful plane, too.

  • OMG, memories! In 1988 I was watching friends button up a Cessna Bird Dog on floats while on a dolly at KAWO; Once done they ran it up and it checked out, so we towed it to a side runway, aligned the dolly, unhooked and let the plane track, lift and climb. Problem was...at 100 feet the engine sputted and quit. No time to restart, pilot went off to grass, step-landed and did a perfect job, until...

  • BADASS

  • Good thing there wasn't a treadmill on that trailer.

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