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Runway and one option to land he found harrison's plane parked at the same airport strip. and harrison's plane, the haviland beaver is larger and seats six people, and used all over the northwest to haul cargo, and tons of power and the tail dragger which make ss it a little bit more challenging to land meaning that the main wheel s are in the front, and then a tail e wheel at the back of the aircraft once you slow down that the wheel will touch the ground. so you are basically kind of landing on two wheels and balancing the whole thing while it is on the ground. so yeah, he is a very skilled ...

Around the sides of those open air cockpits. you have a little padding on the sides. but either way you would have been subjected to the forces of being thrown forward and back. what it is, though, in an old tail dragger like that, and you're flying with a stick, you don't have a lot of instruments and equipment, it's really flying by the seat of your pants stuff. so switching from a more modern aircraft to a vintage tail dragger, that can be hard switching back and forth and it takes a pilot up on his skilling. clearly he brought it in straight and level because the wings were fine. >> these ...