I know I'm probably going to get some heat for posting this, but some of you may enjoy a little collage of a "day in the life of a BlackSheep" nonetheless
If it helps, all approvals necessary were obtained, an army of ground helpers were available, as well as constant communication with the heliport tower to stay in the loop about incoming traffic.
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Trappy, I was just saying that people should not dismiss the people should not dismiss foam as a possible cause of pain and injury, just because it's is a light material. Never claimed that it would be fatal at the scales that we normally have our planes.
However, the Columbia foam was travelling at 523 mph and weighed 1.68 lbs, with a volume of 1390 cubic inches. In standard notation, that's 2.08# density rating. Dense EPP or EPS is also around 1.9# -2.0#. Given a 5lb model plane, and p=mv, you can divide the speed by about 3, to have the same momentum. So at 175mph, the model aircraft would have the same momentum at that piece of NASA foam.
As mentioned, the density is the same, and due to the streamlined design of model planes, the same momentum would be exchanged and if it was a nose first impact could be more serious that a flat piece of foam.
@Fab, yep, that's why I asked Trappy to fly into himself with props spinning. If he's afraid of 100% throttle, 75% would do. Trappy, can we ask a crash test filmed from plane and a stationary location near you to see the impact?
@Robert no concrete data is required. A spinning prop is dangerous. Flying fields have safe places for people to stand and safe places for planes to take off and land. They are always out of the way of people. If you think a young child could survive any sort of impact you are very mistaken. It's utter madness!
@Robert, I'm afraid you have failed. In ALL of those situations you presented, you are risking your OWN life and the life of others who have WILLINGLY agreed to take that risk. Trappy flies over the public. They didn't sign on to his stunt and 99.99% of them are unaware he's even doing it.
@Trappy, yes, professionalism. I know it's a word not in your vocabulary, but it's something you should probably research. Do a bit of Googling and come back when you're up to speed.
@Paul: The plane was obviously not travelling at 150mph.
You ever play baseball? Do you know how fast the ball flies after being hit? And how hard it is?
@Fab: The problem is that we have two sides arguing about something we are all passionate about, and neither side has concrete data on. And one of those sides keeps trying to argue points based on obviously false data, as well as drawing comparison to irrelevant situations. (ie: frozen blocks of ice falling off the space shuttle)
Paul, thanks, I've had a great laugh as that part starting with "if you were a professional" seemed to apply directly to me. You're just not getting to see that part of the video. What you're seeing are the outtakes from the video shoot that I decided to edit up and post for fun. I'd like to suggest that YOU actually start posting videos from awesome scenery, that way we all have something to enjoy, instead of sitting in your lazy chair and crying us a river. Who knows, maybe you, too, could make a living out of doing that in future. Maybe at that point someone will come along and tell you that posting these videos is infantile, and you will realize just how much that affects you :)
it seems impossible to make mature comment about obvious dangers without being drawn into silly argument
@Paul
I went white water rafting this summer. My wife has never done anything like that, nor have any of the other people in the boat other than myself, and the guide who was paid. I was surprised that we'd be running class 4 rapids which are easily capable of killing, and with people who admitted they didn't even know how to swim.
The whole thing was totally legal, run by a large corporation who run 20 trips a day, all summer long.
The guides are not licensed by the government.
I drive my car on a racetrack, and I don't have a racing license from the government.
Sometimes I spectate at professional car rallies. Nobody there has a spectating license from the government, even though people can, and have been killed while spectating.
Whatever point you were trying to make, you completely failed.
@Robert, so you're suggesting the forces of a 5lb foam plane with a fiberglass leading edge hitting something at 150MPH are trivial?
Last I checked fiberglass was a rigid structure designed for durability....not absorbing impacts.
I'm glad it's in the top content. I'm glad a portion of the posters here are expressing some discontent with your irresponsible videos. You seem to be seeking some notariety for your bad decisions. If you were an actual professional about this business, you would get hired by a company to perform these irresponsible stunts, film the video, edit the video and let the company post it under their own name without any reference to TBS. You might have been the idiot behind the stunt, but it would be the company who would be responsible for your irresponsibility.
You should be posting the cool videos you used to flying over awesome scenery.
I'm not sure why you still have that "hey, look at me" 4 year old behavior.
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