A Bad Day for the Rebel Alliance at Love Field (Dallas)

[Celebration]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/12/a_bad_day_for_the_rebel_allian.php

A Friend of Unfair Park forwards some raw, silent footage from KXAS-Channel 5 of an experimental plane that landed the hard way at Love Field earlier this afternoon. The video follows, and given the markings, odds are the pilot was shot down by Darth Vader -- that, or "the landing gear collapsed," explains Jose Torres, spokesman for the city's Aviation Administration.

Torres tells Unfair Park the pilot was cleared to land on Runway 13L, the one that runs parallel to Lemmon Avenue, earlier this afternoon. But, clearly, he landed a little too hard, Torres says, "and he pancaked on the runway." Within the hour, a flatbed hauled the plane to Landmark Aviation, where mum's the word.

Yep, the photo shows Rebel Alliance markings on the tail of the plane. Okay that is just WEIRD.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. That was not the X-Wing we're looking for...

Move along.

[Webster Green]

2. The comments are great.

:rofl:

[Ilsa]

4. You scruffy nerfherder! :-) Like ...

I used to bullseye wombrats in my T16 back home and they're not much bigger than 2 meters.

[Ezlivin]

3. Looks like it's a Long-EZ or a Velocity

Definitely a variation on the Burt Rutan design.

When I was in flight training my flight instructor drilled the nemonic GUMP into me, even though I was flying a simple Piper with neither a constant-speed propeller nor retractible landing gear. Every time I was in the pattern I'd go through the letters: Gas, good; undercarriage, good; mixture, good; propeller, good.

My CFI told me that there are two kinds of pilots: Those who've landed with their gear up and those who will.

That crashed aircraft probably can be made airworthy again, but at what cost I don't know.