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Ouch...giraffe strike. Caution: dead giraffe

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Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:44 pm

Ouch...giraffe strike. Caution: dead giraffe

Saw this on cessna170.org. Poor fella...kinda hard to duck when you're that tall.

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Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:09 pm

Well that's one way to shorten your roll out. Not my first choice.
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Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:17 pm

that's what you get for "Rubbernecking" during roll out....
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Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:45 pm

If he had some of Wup's giant bush wheels the wing would go right over the giraffe.Image
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:40 pm

I thought my 182 had lots of drag.

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