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August 17th, 2004, 15:10
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Spring, TX
Posts: 878
|  tiedowns do work..... proof that tiedowns will work in a hurricane  |
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August 17th, 2004, 15:14
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 3,091
   | Re: tiedowns do work..... 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. |
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August 17th, 2004, 15:15
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Mid-Atlantic, KMRB
Posts: 1,925
| Re: tiedowns do work..... 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. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin2.gif[/img] |
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August 17th, 2004, 15:18
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Maryland
Posts: 15,137
| Re: tiedowns do work..... I was going to say, nice photoshop job then I saw where it came from -- AOPA. |
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August 17th, 2004, 15:21
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 13,219
| Re: tiedowns do work..... [ QUOTE ] I was going to say, nice photoshop job then I saw where it came from -- AOPA. [/ QUOTE ] 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. |
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August 17th, 2004, 16:44
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| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Spring, TX
Posts: 878
| Re: tiedowns do work..... 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. |
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August 17th, 2004, 22:58
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: -
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| Re: tiedowns do work..... Curiously I wrote the exact same quote at another site. Go figure. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] 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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