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some serious seat clenching there - thanks for posting!
 
Very specialized plane + pilot who knows how to make the most of his plane = remarkable
 
 
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Taildraggers with lots of flight time. Brother- in- Law was practicing this with his Cessna 140. Slow and easy, watch the wind.
 
I recall reading how a team using the Fiesler Storch (sp?) grabbed Mussolini from a mountain retreat; I visualize the landing being a lot like this.

I'll take the bus, thank you.
 
Once caught a ride with a de Havilland Beaver into "someplace" in S.E.A... incline like I'd never seen, just KNEW I was gonna die. Pilot just laughed at me.
 
I used to practice short field landings but nothing like this. Fishers Island was short enough for me. Lots of flaps early on & drag it in. Learning how to fly years ago at Westchester, I was a little high on final in a Piper Colt (no flaps) and cross-controlled into a forward slip to lose altitude and my instructor panicked. "Where did you learn that?" From a book. I read every book about flying I could get my hands on. You can't know too much.
 
Oh yeah.... Slip to landings are fun!
Done it many times.
 
Watched it once.
Helio Courier (STOL).
Lost a tailwheel and fork on takeoff.
Loaded to the max, including fuel....did a 30MPH touchdown, held the tail up with brakes on mains and power...left a six foot furrow in the dirt (Lomalinda, Colombia) with the oleo strut.
Picked it up, plopped the tail on the back of a flatbed Cushman 3-wheeler, pulled it back tot eh shop, re-welded the tailwheel and fork to oleo strut, topped off the fuel, changed some skivvies, and off he went.
 
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