The River Run

With Tim Hogan, flying in a Piper Cub, we cruise along the top of a river in upstate New York

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• flight
• New
• York
• river
• Piper
• Cub
• airplane

[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! ;-)

[akomara1]

this is why God created airplanes

[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.

[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.

[suppergenus]

@barryb83110 was that fletcher anderson?

[JustinAndersen]

@mdickinson The best kind of plane!



[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