This outrageous video originating in Mother Russia was posted by BLOKNOTROSTOV. In just two days, it has accumulated over 150,000 hits.
A Russian man fills his homemade powered glider at a local gas station. Then, he drives off, merges onto the freeway, and takes flight.
As YouTuber xXMuraiiXx so eloquently put it, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
Jonathan Fielding took a birthday flight with his wife, which was coincidentally her first time flying, his mother in-law, and his baby son on a small propeller plane over beautiful Utah.
Terrifyingly, they were informed by the pilot that the carburetor had iced over, and the propeller was out of commission. They would have to crash land.
Being that this is 2013, Jonathon, of course, whipped out his cellphone camera to capture the drama. Even though the pilot was experienced with powerless landings in the field, the snow caused the plane to flip on landing.
Thankfully, they all survived save for a few scratches and bruises, and now the cellphone footage has gone viralviral, amassing over a quarter million views in just a week.
As previously mentioned, Russia and Eastern Europe has more than their fair share of dash cameras in their cars. And for good reason; to catch incidents on camera that would otherwise never be believed without evidence.
Like a plane crashing by the highway, which sent debris slamming into traffic.
As jmedios says: “Michael Bay approves of this video.”
Last week, aviation and aerospace obsessed Air Boyd published this video about the 1950′s Fairchild XC-120 Packplane.
The aircraft was an American experiment for heavy aerial transport with a unique and unconventional removable cargo pods, almost like a tractor trailer. In the end, only one XC-120 was built, and the idea was scrapped.
Wonder why…
Experienced pilot Larry Hockensmith got a little to cocky in his glider plane, and had to attempt an emergency landing. Thankfully, he is a skilled airman, and impressively dodged power lines and tree tops when landing on a side street.
But just when you thought he made a perfect out-landing, his right wing caught a mailbox, turning the plane into a pile of soft, fluffy garbage cans to break his fall.
