tiedowns do work.....

triple7

triple7

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proof that tiedowns will work in a hurricane
040816charley_3.jpg
 
man...I'm sure getting your plane messed up like that in a hurricane would be very frustrating, but its gotta be even worse when its a homebuilt. Not only a bunch of money at stake, but also probably thousands of hours of work down the drain.
 
Proof for the insurance company the owner tried to minimize any damage.

I don't believe I have seen anything in the regs that say anything about needing the back half of the aircraft as "minimum equipment" needed for flight. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin2.gif
 
WOW! wonder what type of tiedowns they were and if more "study" should be done to implement such a tie-down plan!
 
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I was going to say, nice photoshop job then I saw where it came from -- AOPA.

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Yep, that one's real. Not sure if it was Punta Gorda or Ft Myers, though. I THINK it was Charlotte County Airport, though. I saw it on AvWeb.
 
yeah,i heard charlotte county got trashed......makes me feel terrible to see such pics. you are right about the homebuilt...insurance can replane a 172 or a bonanza, but a homebuilt with about 2500 hrs in it would bring me to tears.
 
Curiously I wrote the exact same quote at another site. Go figure. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Anyway, one theory elsewhere is that the photographed plane is a kit plane that had the wings either removed beforehand or never installed to date. That would explain why the tiedown is to the "TOP" of the wing.

On the other hand, the tail....definitely got ripped off.
 
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