Funny little nosewheel!

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:51 pm

Watch the video all the way to the end...you'll laugh too!

http://www.crazyaviation.com/movies/CA_ ... ewheel.wmv

N200PF · Post by **N200PF** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:18 pm

I LOVE IT!!!

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:27 pm

The ending is pretty funny, but I sure feel for the pilot prior to that.

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:07 pm

What whas that nosegear made out of, a toothpick? It didn't look like he hit that hard to me.

I better stick to tailwheels. I haven't knocked one of those off yet.

LooseNut · Post by **LooseNut** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:09 pm

... but he didn't ground-loop

Post by **Spike** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:22 pm

My heart really goes out to the guy. The ending though, well, that thar was funny

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:49 pm

Kind of like the day I was sitting at a red light. Cross traffic was from a freeway off ramp. The cars coming off the freeway stopped but suddenly a tire came rolling across the intersection just as pretty as you please. About a second behind it was a teenage kid in hot pursuit! It was kinda surreal and funny at the same time.

PS. Two cars back at the cross-street's red light was a pickup truck with only three tires. Don't know how he got out of the truck so fast. Ah to be young again.

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:46 am

svanarts wrote:Kind of like the day I was sitting at a red light. Cross traffic was from a freeway off ramp. The cars coming off the freeway stopped but suddenly a tire came rolling across the intersection just as pretty as you please. About a second behind it was a teenage kid in hot pursuit! It was kinda surreal and funny at the same time.

PS. Two cars back at the cross-street's red light was a pickup truck with only three tires. Don't know how he got out of the truck so fast. Ah to be young again.

Actually I did that once. I was heading to the airport when I was yong and worked loading for a crop duster. Driving down the road about 50 mph minding my own business and all of a sudden the right front tire and wheel departed my old Ford 4 wheel drive. It gets the adrenaline going! The wheel rolled over a quarter of a mile past where I got the truck stopped.

I was just glad it happened when no one was coming as I didn't have much control.

papakeith · Post by **papakeith** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:39 am

I just feel bad for the poor bastard who now has a damaged plane.

On the topic of loosing a wheel:

I lost the rear wheel off of a loaded 18 ft box truck once. Thankfully I was at a stop light when it let go. I rolled forward when the light turned green and the whole truck shifted hard to the left

It could have been worse, I had just gotten off the hiway about 1/4 mile earlier.