The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) held their annual car show and swap meet/flea market in Hershey, PA this past weekend. For those of you that have not had a chance to go to this event it is something to put on your list of things to see. There is so much to see, the size of it is overwhelming. Here are some highlights from this year’s event.
If you need to get indoors to get out of the cold or heat, or rain you can visit the museum. On some evenings during the weeklong event you can even get food at the museum. This year the museum had some of Peter Maier’s art work on display. For more on Peter click here. If its parts that you’re looking for the flea market is the place for you. I believe that you could purchase a frame at the flea market and find enough parts to build a complete vehicle and drive it home.
This is a gear up landing caught on video from inside the aircraft. The aircraft is a single engine Cessna 172RG. The beeping horn that you hear in the video is a warning to the pilots that the aircraft is in the landing configuration and the gear is NOT down and locked. These two pilots are having a wonderful social conversation instead of doing the pre-landing checklist.
The ending is a good look and sound of what a gear-up landing is like.
It is amazing that the two pilots were able to ignore the warning horn and continue with the landing. The fact that someone was in the back seat with video and audio recording this magnificent performance of cockpit stupidity makes this a rare video indeed.
An ultra-light plane crashed into a Ferris wheel at a rural festival in eastern Australia on Saturday, trapping two children on the ride and two adults in the aircraft for hours. There were no serious injuries.
The pilot, Paul Cox, said he did not see the Ferris wheel before his plane hit it.
On page 5 of the September/October 2011 issue of Antique Automobile (AACA publication) there is mention of the Lee Roy Hartung collection that is being auctioned off this fall. The short advertisement by Auctions America just mentioned a few of the vehicles that will be offered such as a rare BMW Veritas Convertible, numerous Model T and Model A Fords, an all original 1911 Pope, a 1912 Sears twin, and a 1913 Flying Merkel Twin. Curious and wanting to see/read more about the collection I did some internet research. Here are the highlights of my search.
Here is an interesting rental home I found on the net…
It is a fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite. It is a refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia).
Cirrus Aircraft has confirmed persistent rumors of the imminent departure of CEO Brent Wouters after 2 and a half years of tough times and some questionable decision-making. Cirrus Co-Founder Dale Klapmeier has been named Chief Executive Officer. Brent Wouters, previously President and Chief Executive Officer, is reportedly “no longer with the company.”
