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Red Bull Air Race crash (lucky dude)

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Vice Crew Dawg

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Well, when they do stuff like this, you'd imagine something like that to eventually happen.

Can't see the video, but I'm online at base

pawnman Gray Beard

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  On 4/16/2010 at 12:07 PM, sky_king said:

I did the training... water... it's helpful... a lot... today...

He's Brazilian. I bet his English is better than your Spanish.

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Ice Cream SNAP

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  On 4/16/2010 at 1:49 PM, pawnman said:

He's Brazilian. I bet his English is better than your Spanish.

2....except Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish.

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  On 4/16/2010 at 4:06 PM, tripilot said:

Haha. Irony. Lost.

Nah. I bet his English AND his Spanish are both better than your Portugese.

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Guest Lockjaw25

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Wow. Good to see he's OK, and big kudos to the divers who went in and got him out.

B52gator Flight Lead

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Call me gay, but the sweet sounds of Shepard Smith could put me to sleep. To steal a bit from Family Guy..."Coming up next: Handsome man recaps news in pleasing baritone...more on that...later."

slacker Gray Beard

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  On 4/16/2010 at 11:58 PM, b52gator said:

Call me gay, but the sweet sounds of Shepard Smith could put me to sleep. To steal a bit from Family Guy..."Coming up next: Handsome man recaps news in pleasing baritone...more on that...later."

Gay. (I couldn't resist.)

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  On 4/16/2010 at 11:52 PM, itsokimapilot said:

Definitely better than your jokes! Zing :aviator:

Fair enough. My point stands...this guy's obviously a good pilot, it's obvious that he was very lucky to escape this incident with no more than minor scrapes and bruises, and the first thing Sky_King thinks of is his accent.

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Saw that a few days after it happened, although not that particular video. There's a bunch of different angles on it, almost hit some folks in the field.

Rough stuff. At first glance, its very reminiscent of the T-Bird at Mountain Home.

Godspeed

edit: taking out speculation

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Hacker Gray Beard

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There's much better video over at the Red Bull website. Tons of slo-mo cameras from multiple angles that show just how close he came to not flying out of that.

I used to fly with Hall at Seymour when he was on his exchange tour -- a great dude and an equally great pilot. Happy to see him get out of that one unscathed.

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  On 6/6/2010 at 5:13 PM, Napoleon_Tanerite said:

good thing he rolled out right before hitting the water... that could have gone MUCH worse.

Brilliant.

Spoo Gray Beard

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Nice Huggy, you beat me to it.

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  On 6/6/2010 at 5:23 PM, Hacker said:

There's much better video over at the Red Bull website. Tons of slo-mo cameras from multiple angles that show just how close he came to not flying out of that.

I used to fly with Hall at Seymour when he was on his exchange tour -- a great dude and an equally great pilot. Happy to see him get out of that one unscathed.

um...wow

edit link, video is on homepage now

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