You'd have to be pretty ballsy to drive that truck with a big prop spinning over your head on an airplane that may or may not have enough lift to stay up.

meh, I didnt have any doubt. I am sure they are not the first one to have tried it. The first ones, they got balls.

Pff. I want to see it land without water!

Didn't battleships, carrying airplanes, do this in WWII?

Not sure why the truck is necessary. I guess for stability and to make sure the trailer isn't damaged after lift off.

= mind (blown)

I wonder what the takeoff speed is for that plane??

CHEATING.

We just had a float plane land on the ground here in Alaska... after clipping another plane and killing a family of 4 onboard : (
http://www.adn.com/2011/07/31/1994251/plane-in-collision-that-killed.html
Pics of plane coming down if you click on the family and go to pic 3 or 4

Flying's such a huge part of life there of course you know there's no way to get around it. Very tragic. And since I have a close relative there I'm always concerned. One thing: I'm always puzzled why nobody has come up with an effective retractable or retract/inflatable pontoon. Those things are worse than wire struts as far as drag is concerned. It's like a freaking flying pontoon boat. I've tried to fly model float planes and they are the worst ever.

>> ^deathcow:

We just had a float plane land on the ground here in Alaska... after clipping another plane and killing a family of 4 onboard : (
http://www.adn.com/2011/07/31/1994251/plane-in-collision-that-killed.
html
Pics of plane coming down if you click on the family and go to pic 3 or 4

If they had had Chuck Norris, he could have just picked up the plane and threw it.

>> ^ant:

Didn't battleships, carrying airplanes, do this in WWII?

They used extendable catapults to launch float planes abeam and cranes to retrieve them after landing.

You know it's not really safe when a couple of firetrucks are shadowing you during takeoff

Well, you learn something useless every day...

Next time I want them to put it on a treadmill.

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