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Check your planes in Anchorage area. I won’t post a photo as owner may not know yet but there’s a (once) real nice PA-18 totally twisted and up against fence at Merrill Field gravel strip 05/23.
Broke loose and went flipping across the ramp like a Pamper blowing out of a village landfill until fence stopped it.
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That’s a shame, really sad
Gusts to 49 at Birchwood last night, I put a truck in front of the 180. Merrill showed gusts to 38 but may have been a freak one that did not get recorded.
DENNY
There's always some that buy regular covers then wonder why they blow up and off after bending the trailing edge of the wing.
Gary
I was out at both Lake Hood and Merrill this morning looking after my and a few friend's planes. Gusts were 50+ I'd bet. The Merrill wind gauge must be funky because METARs showed way higher winds at Hood when it was actually way worse at Merrill.
The cub broke its ropes from what I saw. Another Citabria had old weathered cam straps that the stitching pulled and it blew into a t-craft and a -12. A Pacer had old brittle ropes and it was getting up close and personal with a 172 for a bit there. Lots of tattered wing covers and bushwheel covers blown to the fence.
Best of luck to both pilots. That’s a rough picture. To make lemons into lemon aid, their bellies and what’s left of the cubs were really clean.Two Cubs collide in Texas. Glad the pilots got out.
https://www.valleycentral.com/news/...de-in-weslaco-pilots-transferred-to-hospital/
Sounds like they did a good job.
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Looks like illegal taking of game...... fly hunt same day.....
Yakutat Airport has been a zoo grounds for years. In 1977 a couple of us going from Fairbanks to Juneau on the commercial milk run scared the nuggets out of some moose on the runway. The 737 made a low pass first to clear the runway.
Gary
It's all fenced now.
How did the bear get through the fence?
Gary