Hoe je niet met een watervliegtuig moet landen

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  1. Stevo

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    W O W :D
     
  3. sven

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    Die komt aan wal net een misselijke albatros. :D Die vent is lekker bezig. :lol:
     
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    Pffff die heeft zeker zijn vliegbrevet bij een halve kilo oploskoffie gekregen :wink:


    Beetje off topic misschien maar Michiel kun je eventueel dat trukje met die directe link eens uitleggen via PB. Thanx.

    Stevo
     
  6. El_barto_

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    ik vindt het raar dat die mensen dat er voor lopen zo rustig blijven, als ik daar was, ik zou gaan lopen
    je weet nooit wat er kan gebeuren.

    El Barto
     
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    Mischien komt ie altijd zo thuis? :lol:
     
  8. Han Veldhuis

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    Hoi,
    ...kwam het vorige week tegen op een ander forum,...

    video komt uit de speelfilm "Endless Summer 2"

    Back in the “olden days”, when Tamarindo was a small village and everyone
    knew everyone else, filmmaker Bruce Brown chose the town&nb sp;to shoot a segment
    for his new movie "Endless Summer II". The sequel to the famous surfing
    movie "Endless Summer" came a generation later than the original, and, of
    course, featured new stars: Wingnut and Pat O'Connor, together with one of
    the originals, Robert August.


    Living in Flamingo at that time was a pilot, "Hoot" Gibson, who had spent
    several years obtaining his commercial licence in Costa Rica. Hoot owned a
    vintage Grumman Goose seaplane, relic of World War II, and intended to
    charter it for tours. Given the state of the roads&nb sp;then - and not much
    improved since - a seaplane seemed the way to go to explore a country
    surrounded by sea.


    Robert August had a fine idea: To charter the Goose to fly the film crew and
    its surfers around the coasts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, looking
    for unknown or little-known surf spots to shoot their sequences. Apart from
    being much faster to cover more area, the aircraft was highly superior to a
    boat, which could only examine the waves from the "back", or ocean, side
    whereas a 'plane could approach from the landward side, too. "Endles s Summer
    II" was Hoot's first charter in Costa Rica, and was to last two weeks.


    On the first day, the Goose took off from the airport. The plan was to fly
    out to Cabo Velas, return along Playa Grande and land in the bay near
    Tamarindo estuary, where the crew would board, then to take off on their
    adventures.


    The camera crew set up on Tamarindo Beach, ready to shoot the approach and
    landing for the movie. But instead of flying from Cabo Velas, approaching
    Tamarindo from the west along the Playa Grande coastline, the&nb sp;big Grumman
    twin came roaring down the river from the north, putting on a show for the
    camera. On board were the pilot, "Hoot" Gibson, and local resident and
    California board shaper, the late Mike "Doc" Diffenderfer.


    Approaching Tamarindo, the pilot started a right turn to follow the estuary,
    but his height was insufficient. Presumably he suddenly became aware of the
    power lines which cross the river at that point, and was forced to fly below
    them. The right pontoon caught the water, and jerked the aircraft to the
    right. Overcorrecting, the pilot put ;the left float into the water, and the
    aircraft swerved to that side.


    Gibson applied full take-off power to get the aircraft back into the air,
    but it careered from the river onto the beach, where it ground-looped and
    came to a stop. The whole incident was filmed, and eventually became part of
    the movie.


    "At this point," said August, "we saw fuel spraying from the aircraft onto
    the sand, and there was a distinct danger of a fire or explosion. As we
    approached the 'plane, the doors opened and Hoot and Doc jumped out,
    fortunately both unhurt.&nb sp;From a nea rby beach house, a resident came running,
    carrying a big club and shouting at the pilot that he was in a national
    park, and polluting the beach. We managed to calm him down, and the incident
    ended at that point."


    Eyewitness Dean Butterfield adds: “I was up the hill looking over the
    estuary, watching Hoot Gibson fly the plane through it. He was doing touch
    and go’s in the estuary, I was wondering why he felt he had to do that in
    there. As he came out to the mouth I think he saw the cable stretched across
    at ;the last min ute and tried to duck under it. He caught the wing tip and
    stuffed it into the sand.


    By the time I got down to it, there were a lot of people around. I took
    pictures and made a T-shirt from one.”


    Officials of Minae also attended the site very shortly after the accident,
    and charged the pilot with flying in a protected zone (Parque Marina las
    Baulas). As a result, Gibson's licence, obtained over several years, was
    withdrawn after one brief flight.



    "As it happened, the club-bearing resident did quite well out of the crash."
    Aug ust continues. "The plane suffered damage to a wing and one of the
    propellers, and parts for a vintage seaplane are not procured at your local
    NAPA store, so the aircraft had to sit for a year or so while repairs were
    made. During this time the aircraft was parked in the resident's back
    garden, he and his family being paid for caretaker duty against theft or
    vandalism. I believe someone of the family slept in their garden ornament
    every night."


    The day after the accident, filming continued with a scene where supposed
    crash passeng ers August, Wingnut and Pat O'Connor climb cheerfully from the
    Goose, carrying their boards, and run off to the surf.


    Seriously concerned that accident investigators or other officials might
    confiscate the film shot up to that point, Director Bruce Brown hired a
    friend to hop a Sansa flight to San José, thence to Los Angeles for
    processing. Fortunately, the film escaped customs examination but, arriving
    in Los Angeles, it was delayed a couple of days en route for the processing
    studio by the Rodney King riots, which occurred in the vicinity of the
    studio.


    The Goose was&nb sp;eventually repaired and flown out of Tamarindo.
     

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