Drag Strip Landing at NPR
 

Something different on our drag strip. After I landed on the track, my buddy who was along to bring my plane back to Gulf Shores begged me for the opportunity to make a landing on the track. Carolyn Cartwright hopped in the back for her first flight in a small plane.

The video of the takeoff and landing was made by a student pilot riding in the left front seat. You get a good bird's-eye view of the track & pit area.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhGqICpN6I

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Very well done
That must have been a blast...

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Looks like fun to me.

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Pat when the plane is landing what was the beeping noise.

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It is a stall warning device that let's you know that your plane is almost too slow to fly. Sort of like a Matie Box that warns you about breaking out. :)

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Thankyou Pat.

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I now know what a football feel like going thru the uprights. I guess that is a 3 point landing?

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What was the dial?

Don

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instead of dive bombing the brakes, just pick the front wheel up

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Learning to fly is still on my "list". I had a chance several years ago when I lived in NC.. I had a customer that he and his son both flew.. They had a grass strip behind the barn and they offered my their plane for my flying hours.. All I had to do was take the classroom and they would supply the aircraft for my flight hours for fuel only... Couldn't beat that but a career move came before I got to do that.. But the move did allow me to become a USCG Captain on a vessel of 100 tons or less.. So guess I can't complain... But that still does look like fun to me!!!!! But I want to ride the space shuttle also....... So what do I know???

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Pat

A good cross wind landing would be fun there.


Hammer

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Now that's some funny ***** right there.

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Pat,
Your 35 years late, landing on your drag strip.
I had Whitehouse and I-20 and built the Prescott Ar. track (with the closed Whithouse parts/equip.)
I lived in Texarkana and flew in and out of the strips. .Sometimes in a 152 a 172 and a couple of times I rented our local college 182. The hill at I-20 was real exciting to fly off/out of. I went out of there one night with aft CG (had WW-1 in the baggage compartment) and almost/almost stalled. I also forgot the dash lights that night. Talk about seat of the pants flying. Landing was pretty easy, despite the grade. Prescott was fun to land on because we had the PA speakers up on poles by the guard rail. Tight wing tip clearance. I usually put it down short field and just idled past the PA speakers. Man, you talk about a post bringing back old memories, yours did!! Thanks I think you fanned an old flame I have..:~)
Adger

P.S.

Any one want a SS/Comp racing program... some good race cars Truck and trailer...I'll do some trading for the right plane. Bonanza or other Beechcraft , 205 or 210 Cessna

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Reminds me of the old airport drag strips at various places in South Louisiana. The plane would circle low a couple times, then the races would stop, followed by a white flag on a long pole to signal the plane to land. The plane lands, taxis off, and the races start again. Course there was a flagman, and the tower was a platform on top of an old panel truck. The finish line was a guy in a pickup with a flag to signal who won. All those old airports are still functional or have grown larger.

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is this going to become and EVENT for the sportsnationals...

like the golf cart RT and the practice tree $$$ games ???????????

see ya in march !

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That is what the Tulsa track was when I started. At the North Airport. The " tower" was in an old school buss in which all the equipment was stored between races. The flagman at the finish line had a lot of interesting discussions with the racers after close finishes. ;-)

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You remember this one Ed?
We had an accidental plane landing there during the races back around 1978. During eliminations a twin engine plane set down in the shutdown area and came right down the track toward the starting line. The Tulsa airport is just west of the track and he thought he was on approach to one of the runways.

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Reminds me of racing at York US 30 back in the mid-70's. There was so much shut-down there, the planes usually landed well past the finish line as I remember. The strip's still there operating as York-Thomasville airport although the Cragar Tower's long gone. There's still an aerial photo of the place taken during the Super Stock Nationals hanging on the office wall next to the Flight Service desk. Neat video, Pat....

Happy New Year everyone!

-Don

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I wasn't there, but heard about it. Had to be a little embarassing.