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Slick Goodlin
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Think they’re hiring?


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Colonel
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Imagine all that lawn chair tubing bending and buckling when it fires .... and the recoil would almost certainly stall it.

Fun Fact: The Sabre could lose 50 knots of airspeed when you let all the BMG's go. Imagine you're in a very tight turn, right at CLmax to get some lead on the target ....

I remember landing a Challenger (?) ultralight on floats on the water, watching the tubing bend as the floats flapped up and down in the waves. Truly confidence-inspiring. It was actually an amphib. No brakes on wheels. If you wanted to stop, you pulled off the pavement to the grass on the side and sunk down into it.
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Slick Goodlin
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Colonel wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2024 2:08 pm
a Challenger (?) ultralight
You must not have looked too close at the strut attach fittings if you got into the thing.
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Colonel
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They were crazy popular, back in the day. I think I even issued some ultralight pilot permits (?) at some point?
Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines - Brian Mulroney
Slick Goodlin
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I’m not denying they’re popular, just saying they’re structurally kind of spooky once you get up close. A few years back it seems there was a bunch of them losing wings in flight, which I think we can agree is bad.
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