South African Poacher Poachers

[Slick Goodlin]

Think they’re hiring?

[Colonel]

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.

[Slick Goodlin]

a Challenger (?) ultralight

You must not have looked too close at the strut attach fittings if you got into the thing.

[Colonel]

They were crazy popular, back in the day. I think I even issued some ultralight pilot permits (?) at some point?

[Slick Goodlin]

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.