What happens when you're at 3.000 feet and lose oil pressure in your WW2 Russian Yak?

[CJ]

This.

[brraaapppp]

That's amazing

[Danny46]

Damn! Awesome vid

[4bangen]

would watch again. when someone loses a motor at my r/c air field it gets all quiet and you can feel the tension in the air until they land safe. I couldn't imagine the pucker factor for the same thing in real life.

[SS Junk]

About the time the camera was dropped was about the time the pants became soiled. Excellent landing for coming in so hot.
My bro-in-law had been building a jenny bi-plane in his garage for years. Started flying it and was using a three cylinder turbo motor that failed while he and his son were flying around his house. He found a field to land in, but had to come in underneath some power lines into a field with tall alfalfa. While he was landing he was fine, but once it started slowing down the axle was dragging more on the alfalfa and the plane flipped and cartwheeled. They were both okay with no injuries and the son thought it was fun. He sold it about a month later after repairing it.

[jason07]

Good flying! My butthole was puckered the whole time.

[slowyellow]

Amazing self control. He seemed calm through the whole thing.

[mstng86]

Now that is reality tv!!!

[onemeangixxer7502]

Pretty crazy, a lot of time to think about it. Ill still take the helicopter though because you can land in smaller areas engine out

[DON SVO]

Pretty crazy, a lot of time to think about it. Ill still take the helicopter though because you can land in smaller areas engine out

You have a lot more control in an airplane as opposed to a flying wingless egg with a pilot trying to auto rotate it STRAIGHT DOWN at 80mph.

[onemeangixxer7502]

You have a lot more control in an airplane as opposed to a flying wingless egg with a pilot trying to auto rotate it STRAIGHT DOWNat less than 80mph.

HAHA if you say so, you're a pilot though right? LOL . Statistically speaking during the day you have a higher chance of walking away in a helicopter as opposed to a plane. You have A LOT of control during an autorotative decent. At that altitude a piston helicopter of the robinson variety could glide up to 3 miles...

[DON SVO]

HAHA if you say so, you're a pilot though right? LOL . Statistically speaking during the day you have a higher chance of walking away in a helicopter as opposed to a plane. You have A LOT of control during an autorotative decent. At that altitude a piston helicopter of the robinson variety could glide up to 3 miles...

... With a transmission failure?

I'm not going to argue about airplane vs. helo. I'll take the one with wings and flaps.

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You have a lot more control in an airplane as opposed to a flying wingless egg with a pilot trying to auto rotate it STRAIGHT DOWN at 80mph.

They are not going straight down if they are doing it right, but you knew that already right?

[DON SVO]

They are not going straight down if they are doing it right, but you knew that already right?

If. Yes.

[SS Junk]

HAHA if you say so, you're a pilot though right? LOL . Statistically speaking during the day you have a higher chance of walking away in a helicopter as opposed to a plane. You have A LOT of control during an autorotative decent. At that altitude a piston helicopter of the robinson variety could glide up to 3 miles...

And I bet the view from a helicopter is far more a-ma-zing as well!

It just never gets old...