The Hurricane thinks he's still riding moto...

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Edited Date/Time 4/11/2013 5:57am
So our buddy Bob Hannah sent me this photo of him in one of his "backcountry" landing spots...Seems to me he think's he still riding moto or something.

The story goes that Hannah has a standing offer for anyone who owns a "Husky Aircraft" to follow him around Idaho for a day (Bob flies and sells "Scouts") and if they go anywhere he goes he'll give them $1000 cash.

I thought doesn't K-Dub fly a Husky? I asked Bob and he laughed and said..."Sure...he better check with his insurance agent".

Seriously, the Hurricane knows what he's doing out there and he knows he lived his 9-10 lives on the bike BITD. He's smart, competent and logical knowing what he can and can't do in those planes. He has almost made me throw up once in the plane...bastard. Smile

Pretty cool pic though huh.

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FreshTopEnd 4/8/2013 12:14pm
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That's got to be a trail ride compared to the Mustang incident a few years ago.

Okay, a David Knight trail ride . . . lol.
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FlaNard 4/8/2013 12:14pm
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That is the most believable thing I have heard all day. Bob seems like a nut.
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EastFlorida 4/8/2013 12:15pm
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I want to see the video or photo sequence of that landing....
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jtomasik 4/8/2013 12:19pm
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Hannah buzzed me and my buddy when we were riding near his father's property. He was flying a P-51. This was about 15 or so years ago. The scrub brush bushes were about 8' tall, and I swear he almost tore the tops off of them. I wouldn't fuck with the guy.

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Wolfman 4/8/2013 12:22pm
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That's scary.
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Crash82 4/8/2013 12:33pm
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Swap the terms of the bet and see if Bob can fly an ultra-lite through the Atigun pass in Alaska, my Dad is as good a pilot as Bob any day but wouldn't risk getting another pilot killed for any amount of money. I'm pretty sure my Dad could take his little plane almost anywhere Bob could go, in the end there would be places bob couldn't go and places my Dad couldn't go. I wouldn't mind seeing a video of his landing or the whole picture.

Until you circumnavigate the Continental US unsupported all the way to point barrow Alaska in an ultra-lite, you ain't the best. LOL, no hard feelings.

Worthington Glacier, Alaska.



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FreshTopEnd wrote:
That's got to be a trail ride compared to the Mustang incident a few years ago.

Okay, a David Knight trail ride . . . lol.
Flown with him a few times as we were even flying backwards when he would come up to the top of a pass and have the wind hit us, he's legit or I woulda rung his neck
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qtrracer 4/8/2013 1:14pm
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And I thought this was a moto forum, hmmmm.
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FlaNard 4/8/2013 1:31pm
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qtrracer wrote:
And I thought this was a moto forum, hmmmm.
If people can make posts about some kid golfer who is totally moto because he used to race locally or because he can ride a wheelie on a mini bike and call it moto I would say this qualifies nicely.
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Outsider 4/8/2013 1:46pm
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Looks like he landed up on the top and taxied down there... still gnarly though
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VET74 4/8/2013 1:55pm
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There's an old saying in aviation...there's old pilots, and there's bold pilots, but there's no old bold pilots. Woohoo
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FreshTopEnd 4/8/2013 3:09pm
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VET74 wrote:
There's an old saying in aviation...there's old pilots, and there's bold pilots, but there's no old bold pilots. Woohoo
Well, I think Chuck Yeager is still alive, and Neil Armstrong certainily lived a full life, along with plenty of others.

Maybe the saying should change from "bold" to "stupid," but then it wouldn't rhyme I guess.
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avidchimp 4/8/2013 3:56pm
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Chuck Yeager was a bad man in a plane.
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ford832 4/8/2013 4:25pm
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It looks like the Hannah pic should be tilted to the left about 15 deg.Still freaky though....
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No, he didn't taxi a tail dragger down a steep slope and spin it around. He surely landed it there. I have about 1500 hours in a husky A-1 and there have been times where I have had a landing roll of 5 feet. Plus he is landing big time up hill, probably a robust headwind and it is almost like flying an ultralite. There is a cool video out there where a guy actually comes in skiing on the water, hits a river rock coated beach and bounces up on the gravel. Now that takes some balls. Landing on a mountain top, not so much. Trust me, I have flown everything from ultra lights to airline jets, and it doesn't take near the set of balls as one lap around any track out there. It does however take some pretty good skill.
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mototrader 4/8/2013 5:50pm
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..So how does he take off then? just roll off the hill??

i dont know anything about airplanes..
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resetjet wrote:
No, he didn't taxi a tail dragger down a steep slope and spin it around. He surely landed it there. I have about 1500 hours in...
No, he didn't taxi a tail dragger down a steep slope and spin it around. He surely landed it there. I have about 1500 hours in a husky A-1 and there have been times where I have had a landing roll of 5 feet. Plus he is landing big time up hill, probably a robust headwind and it is almost like flying an ultralite. There is a cool video out there where a guy actually comes in skiing on the water, hits a river rock coated beach and bounces up on the gravel. Now that takes some balls. Landing on a mountain top, not so much. Trust me, I have flown everything from ultra lights to airline jets, and it doesn't take near the set of balls as one lap around any track out there. It does however take some pretty good skill.
I'll take you're word for it. Obviously the Husky has a STOL kit?

Thing is, at least in the pic, it appears there is a huge rock outcropping the would block that flight path.
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LappedU 4/8/2013 6:25pm
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The pictures look like they are model planes, not full size.

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Crush 4/8/2013 7:18pm
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Sheeba fuckin titty fucker, what a fuckin lunatic!!!
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VET74 4/8/2013 8:53pm
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VET74 wrote:
There's an old saying in aviation...there's old pilots, and there's bold pilots, but there's no old bold pilots. Woohoo
FreshTopEnd wrote:
Well, I think Chuck Yeager is still alive, and Neil Armstrong certainily lived a full life, along with plenty of others. Maybe the saying should change...
Well, I think Chuck Yeager is still alive, and Neil Armstrong certainily lived a full life, along with plenty of others.

Maybe the saying should change from "bold" to "stupid," but then it wouldn't rhyme I guess.
Semantics...test pilots did a lot of homework first, then flew by the seat of their pants. Like with anything, take risks and eventually you'll come up short. Aviation just isn't as forgiving when your your number is called.

I doubt he landed where he is sitting, but I'm sure it doesn't matter because landing on terrain like that when you didn't have to is a bold move. Wink
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MX-Files 4/9/2013 6:51am
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Bob calls these American Champion Scouts "The motocross bikes of airplanes"...with the big 36" rubber tires they bounce over a lot of big terrain.

As crazy as it seems, the Hurricane is very observant of where he thinks he can land and knows the capabilities of the aircraft and conditions. He'll fly over a place looking for the right landing area and obstacles before he tries some of this stuff.

I've been with him a few times and he's super careful...but confident in his and the plane's skill.

There's a video of him landing on a hill so steep he has to land going up hill and instead of turning around to position for take off, (it's so steep the plane will tip over!) he does a backwards "fakey", flips it around and hits the throttle to leap off.

Fun commercial we did a long time ago for Bob's web site:

http://bobhannah.com/index2.html
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reded 4/9/2013 7:02am
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Sounds more like "trials bike of airplanes" to me.

My dad was a pilot for over 30 years, has some crop duster buddies and I've been to damn near every airshow in the U.S. In my lifetime I've seen some crazy shit but Bob Hannah takes the cake!

Just hope he doesn't take it too far one day.
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It doesn't have a STOL kit, it is a STOL airplane. Stall is around 21 mph. Give yourself a 21 mile an hour headwind and your ground speed is zero. That would mean you can pretty much touch down and stop. Its almost never in a mountain top situation that you have a no wind situation, even a 5 mph wind coming over the mountain will cause a 20 mile an hour wind at the peak. Usually when pilots attempt something like this, they make several passes. Come in set up, check it out, abort at last minute to get comfortable with the situation. Then when conditions are right on the next pass set her down. You can really set these down almost anywhere. Believe it or not, where he is is not that challenging, though it appears crazy. Try to set it down in a small area where there are obstacles, depressions, trees, an glacier with cravasses, etc.....can get a worse, and also stuff that will get in the way when you leave. My guess is that he set it down right there, and when he leaves, he will go straight ahead. You always take off and land into the wind and you cannot taxi that plane downhill on a hill that steep. Still it takes balls to do this, and he has always had a big set.
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Zaugg 4/10/2013 8:00am
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If you guys knit-picked this photo like you do everything else you, would see that he probably taxied there. Look at the horizon line in the far-upper right hand corner. Looks like he "off-roaded" the plane into place.

Skills for sure but its not a helicopter...its an airplane.

That's my worthless 2 cents.
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All I know is.......Bob was really smart with his money and he made a great life for himself. If a guy loves to fly.....he's living the dream.
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Rooster 4/10/2013 10:53am
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The STOL planes can do some amazing stuff.

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Remind me to never fly with Bob Hannah
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resetjet wrote:
It doesn't have a STOL kit, it is a STOL airplane. Stall is around 21 mph. Give yourself a 21 mile an hour headwind and your...
It doesn't have a STOL kit, it is a STOL airplane. Stall is around 21 mph. Give yourself a 21 mile an hour headwind and your ground speed is zero. That would mean you can pretty much touch down and stop. Its almost never in a mountain top situation that you have a no wind situation, even a 5 mph wind coming over the mountain will cause a 20 mile an hour wind at the peak. Usually when pilots attempt something like this, they make several passes. Come in set up, check it out, abort at last minute to get comfortable with the situation. Then when conditions are right on the next pass set her down. You can really set these down almost anywhere. Believe it or not, where he is is not that challenging, though it appears crazy. Try to set it down in a small area where there are obstacles, depressions, trees, an glacier with cravasses, etc.....can get a worse, and also stuff that will get in the way when you leave. My guess is that he set it down right there, and when he leaves, he will go straight ahead. You always take off and land into the wind and you cannot taxi that plane downhill on a hill that steep. Still it takes balls to do this, and he has always had a big set.
Looks like so much fun. We used to fly down to Baja to fish in a 185 with a STOL kit. The obstacles there were more like dogs on the dirt strip and the heat. Grinning

In that pic, if he actually has to take off from that point, it's a huge incline... what if his headwind dies? Unsure
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bartoner 4/10/2013 2:04pm
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whos this bob hannah guy? seems kinda like an arrogant punk....Dry

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