Curtis L. Olson writes: > > Luke Scharf writes: > > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:15, David Megginson wrote: > > > If anyone wants a real challenge, try landing the Cub across the > > > runway instead of along it. It should be easily doable with the > > > 200-foot wide runway, but I haven't quite succeeded yet. > > > > When one of my friends was working on his private certificate, his > > instructor landed the Cessna 150 they were in across the runway. They > > descended nose-up with full-throttle (on the backside of the power > > curve). I'm not sure how wide the runway was, but it was at a towered > > airport. > > > > Fish story? I don't know, but I'm definitely not going to try it in a > > real aircraft! > > The way I heard it, after landing, the two <insert nationality of > choice> pilots looked at each other. One said, "Wow! that was the > shortest runway I've ever had to land on!" The other looked side to > said and added, "Yup, and the widest too..."
This is actually used http://coast.mit.edu/seamless6.cgi?zoom=1&x0=249238&y0=797097&action=pan&lay er=ortho&pwidth=400&pheight=400&x=337&y=195 check the image ground dimensions :-) Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
