What a ride

qflyer said:
I was at an EAA Young Eagles event 20+ years ago where a kid try to get out of a Piper Cub 100' up. It was summer time, door was off, pilot in the back seat and the kid was 8 or 9 years old. Cub took off, started climbing, then the plane went all over the place kind of like the drunk pilot airshow routines. After a few seconds of that, he pulled throttle and slipped to a landing.

The pilot was white as a ghost when he parked. Apparently the kid just got scared shortly after takeoff and noped right out. The kid was half way out the door, and the pilot had to hang on to him with one arm while he landed. This was back when the YE program still had a zero fatality record that they were quite proud of. Pretty sure that was the last Young Eagles event at that club.
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tbqh I don't know why you'd take up a child that isn't yours in an airplane with no door for their first time in a small airplane
 
bimmerphile said:
tbqh I don't know why you'd take up a child that isn't yours in an airplane with no door for their first time in a small airplane
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Speaking from experience? Boy Scouts had an Aviation merit badge.

Definitely got -me- hooked on aeroplaens, to say the least...
 
Burrito said:
Speaking from experience? Boy Scouts had an Aviation merit badge.

Definitely got -me- hooked on aeroplaens, to say the least...
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sure, but let's manage some risk while we're at it

in an airplane with a closed door, where you can keep an eye on squirrelly, unpredictable young passengers
 
I read in another article about this incident that after the pilot got the airplane stopped on the ground he exited it immediately and ran away fearing his seat might still fire. They let the airplane sit for 24 hours before anyone was allowed to approach because they weren't sure if the damaged seat might decide to exit on its own. Reminds me why I hate working on airplanes with ejection seats and am thankful that I don't anymore.
 
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bimmerphile said:
sure, but let's manage some risk while we're at it

in an airplane with a closed door, where you can keep an eye on squirrelly, unpredictable young passengers
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For compare and contrast purposes, @Nark, how did your puppy rescue flight go?:biggrin:
 
Crop Duster said:
For compare and contrast purposes, @Nark, how did your puppy rescue flight go?:biggrin:
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Well, ... the 9 pups made it safely to the destination. Only the last few miles were spent with a partial plugged nose.
They were happy and playful for about 2 weeks afterward. I'm sad to say only two survived.
The reason I came in to the picture to move them, their mother rejected the whole litter (is that right for puppies?) They were about 4 weeks old when I flew them, too young to be on their own. A lab rescue took them and they were apparently happy-go-lucky. My copilot even lined up to adopt one.
Here are the last two:
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Sorry to bring down such a cute and happy story.
 
If at 8-9 years old you think you can just hop out of an airplane at 100’ in the air the gene pool would be better off if you do it.
 
Nark said:
Well, ... the 9 pups made it safely to the destination. Only the last few miles were spent with a partial plugged nose.
They were happy and playful for about 2 weeks afterward. I'm sad to say only two survived.
The reason I came in to the picture to move them, their mother rejected the whole litter (is that right for puppies?) They were about 4 weeks old when I flew them, too young to be on their own. A lab rescue took them and they were apparently happy-go-lucky. My copilot even lined up to adopt one.
Here are the last two:
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Sorry to bring down such a cute and happy story.
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What happened to them??:(

... btw, I was serious in asking to adopt one.
 
Nark said:
Well, ... the 9 pups made it safely to the destination. Only the last few miles were spent with a partial plugged nose.
They were happy and playful for about 2 weeks afterward. I'm sad to say only two survived.
The reason I came in to the picture to move them, their mother rejected the whole litter (is that right for puppies?) They were about 4 weeks old when I flew them, too young to be on their own. A lab rescue took them and they were apparently happy-go-lucky. My copilot even lined up to adopt one.
Here are the last two:
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Sorry to bring down such a cute and happy story.
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Maybe I’m naive, but why did seven of them die!?


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I don’t know why they died. The mother rejected the lot of them. ‍

I’m not a vet, well I am, but not a doctor... something has to be said about the mother rejecting them. Being that young, not getting their mothers antibodies through her milk... It was a tough hill to climb for them. Sad story, which was otherwise such a cool day.
 
Nark said:
I don’t know why they died. The mother rejected the lot of them. ‍

I’m not a vet, well I am, but not a doctor... something has to be said about the mother rejecting them. Being that young, not getting their mothers antibodies through her milk... It was a tough hill to climb for them. Sad story, which was otherwise such a cool day.
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RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) maybe?
 
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