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This Will Get Your Attention!
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nwspeedshots
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There's a drag strip in Iceland...?
Nick Name
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That used to happen at San Fernando. They would mistake it for the airport next door.
Marchboom
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Worse yet, "Hold my beer, watch this!"
Had a similar deal at Barona last month. Plane followed the drag strip but never set it down. Went over the sand trap and into the canyon at the end of the track and disappeared. Everyone was waiting for the big one that never came. Fire dept figured that the pilot followed the canyon and flew on his merry way. If you have ever seen the canyon it took some huge ones to do that.
The real problem developed when the pilot decided to take off with out any clearance or knowledge by the strip staff. Lost control did a ground loop and ran a large group of people watching near the finish line. Don't remember the exact details but seriously injured and/or killed several with his prop. The strip owner and Dale Ham went into a state of shock.
sdwarf36
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I was racing my dwarf car at Whip city speedway in Westfield, Ma. back around 1999. The track is right off the side of Barnes Airport. A combo military +civilian airport. The entrance to the track was the same straight patch of road as the runway. It would be a normal occurance on a Sat. afternoon to have A-10's coming in for touch+ go's so low you could tell what pilot looked like. We one time had a C5 land over the top of us-a big shadow was over the whole track. 
I was strapped in waiting to go out for my heat race. I can see a big black smoke cloud over the top of the grandstands -and everyone running up to the top rows to look out the back. A small twin engine plane has failed on take off + crashed into a building in the airport. The track's ambulance was the closest emergency vehicle-and took off to the plane crash. So we were closed down to another one showed up.
Sadly, the pilot lost his life-but a passenger survived.
I was strapped in waiting to go out for my heat race. I can see a big black smoke cloud over the top of the grandstands -and everyone running up to the top rows to look out the back. A small twin engine plane has failed on take off + crashed into a building in the airport. The track's ambulance was the closest emergency vehicle-and took off to the plane crash. So we were closed down to another one showed up.Sadly, the pilot lost his life-but a passenger survived.
Randy
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Had a similar deal at Barona last month. Plane followed the drag strip but never set it down. Went over the sand trap and into the canyon at the end of the track and disappeared. Everyone was waiting for the big one that never came. Fire dept figured that the pilot followed the canyon and flew on his merry way. If you have ever seen the canyon it took some huge ones to do that.
Huge ones what?
PiPPi
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It's been there a while. Went part concrete back in 2010.
See http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6183737&postcount=2
aafunnycar
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I remember for a few years he used to fly into Etown in a small jet, at the airport next to the pits. It was a hoot watching him take off.
We flew into E town for about ten years and every year Conrad was also there, I would doubt he has changed his routine. That was the greatest way to get in and out of that race.
Randy
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RG, a huge prop?
What would you know about that?
speaking of "getting your attention" I went over to bangshift to check logistics on the pro winter warm up streaming and came across this .... it clearly did not catch their attention!
http://bangshift.com/blog/incredibl...-and-land-in-a-river-neither-really-care.html
http://bangshift.com/blog/incredibl...-and-land-in-a-river-neither-really-care.html
