There's something fishy about that story...

A grizzly bear ate a Cub.

got nuthin'

in before colbert and the bear cavalry

That article is bearly worth reading.

He got his plane flyable, after that much damage, with duct tape?

Sounds like he kept his stick on the ice

/If the women dont find you handsome, etc.

Sounds like he forgot to pay the piper..

Or, left some snacks in the plane.

//a stretch, i know

Unimpressed.

The pilot flew home in that?

The pilot radioed for two new tyres, three cases of duct tape and a couple of rolls of cellophane to be flown in so he could repair his craft and get home.

WIN

The duct tape airplane in this article proves everything I learned about duct tape from Red Green.

By the way, was this the pilot?

I like to navigate through bare bush.

So THIS is bushpiloting??? Then what the heck have I´ve been forced to do tuesday after tuesday with this woman? She sure smelled like a bear but I'd never guessed this!

FTA: hese pictures from an an un-named, hapless but entirely resourceful Alaskan bush pilot take aircraft gastronomy to new heights, however.


Yawwwwwwn

A bear ate my plane, a giant squid ate my boat and my hovercraft is full of eels.

What's worse than Bear Cavalry?

Bear Air Cav.

Somaticasual: Sounds like he forgot to pay the piper..

Exactly what I was going to say.

Everytime I hear or read "aeroplane" I feel like I'm hanging out with the Wright brothers.

Also, I enjoy that it was put back together with duct tape and cellophane.

FTA: The fishy aroma attracted a passing grizzly bear who, clearly frustrated at not being able to see the lovely "noms" it could smell, took the plane apart in an effort to find it.

nom nom nom nom ?

PiperArrow: Somaticasual: Sounds like he forgot to pay the piper..

Exactly what I was going to say.



/Here? Dragon Age Origin take it's toll, Warden
//XP please

"Lemme tellya what happened, and I don't want to hear 'Act of God.'"

/my car hit a water buffalo

So what? Mr. T ate my balls.

i was on the way to work one day about twelve years ago, when i came upon a herd of buffalo. it was on a preserve, and they don't care that you are in a hurry. i was almost an hour late. true story.i sure wish i had a camera with me. and to all you city folks...buffalo are bigger than they look on television.

aeroplane? I think the last time I seen that spelling and pronouncation used was in a WWI fighterplane doumentry.

cats4rent
Even us city folk have heard of Buffalo. Its just outside of New York city. I have to agree though. I have seen it on TV. The buildings look to be about 15 inches high. Small city indeed.

Big_Bad_Dad: Even us city folk have heard of Buffalo. Its just outside of New York city. I have to agree though. I have seen it on TV. The buildings look to be about 15 inches high. Small city indeed.

Right, Buffalo. near Yonkers, right?

//oh wait, I forgot, people from NYC don't care about anything north of 81st street.

I used to live in a Buffalo that was in NY. It smells as bad as it looks.

Did anyone recognize the familiar twang of a farker? The author of this article is clearly one of us.

I work in aviation so I heard about this awhile ago.

Here is a thread with a few more pictures

Pretty resourceful of the guy. The solution to any problem "Get me three cases of duct tape!"

What the bear may have looked like.

More and better pics here Link (new window)

Airwolf: More and better pics here Link (new window)

Even better res. Nice.

From what other farkers were saying above, in the pictures you can see the guy's gun case mounted outside of the plane. Better to have it outside the cabin to start, but I would guess that it might be good to have quick access to it immediately after landing.

Just watched the Duct Tape episode of Mythbusters, so no surprises he could patch up that fabric with that stuff. Of course, fabric over welded tube is not structural in the same way stressed-skin Alclad is, so it wouldn't have worked so well on an all-metal plane.

'Aeroplane,' BTW, is more etymologically correct than 'airplane.' Tyres, maybe not so much. Of course, I couldn't use my Whitworth spanners on that Piper, either.

Ah, duct tape. It's not just for diarrea any more.

Hope he got a special flight permit before trying to fly back like that.

MONSTERTRUCK: Ah, duct tape. It's not just for diarrea any more.

They agree

I hung out at a local FBO in aoutheast Florida years ago mooching rides and doing chores for rides and lessons. The first time I was there an old Piper bare airframe and a set of wings with the bottom cover missing was over to one side. My buddy explained that a salesman had rented it to fly into the Okeechobee area and had landed in a pasture at one of the brazillion cattle ranches out there. When he got back the cows had eaten all the cloth off the plane they could reach. Seems cows love the taste of the dope (banana oil?) used to pull the cloth tight on the frame. Just like a model airplane.

/Moo - om nom nom.

A sea monster ate my ice cream!

Ducktales...oooOOO!

Tennessee chrome

"if you can't duc' it, fuc' it"

Coelacanth: The pilot flew home in that?

She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, Kid. Besides, he made some special modifications himself.

gorgor: MONSTERTRUCK: Ah, duct tape. It's not just for diarrea any more.

APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/yg7czyt
(copy and paste)

Um, yeah, I don't think there's any way I'm journeying to a gorgor link where the guy he quotes mentions diarrhoea, Even a link NOT marked NSFW (and he's usually pretty good at that)... no way :)

Let me know if I'm actually wrong.

Six Demon Bag: "Lemme tellya what happened, and I don't want to hear 'Act of God.'"

/my car hit a water buffalo

This guy didn't want to hear it either.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268437/

cats4rent 2009-11-10 02:08:57 PM
i was on the way to work one day about twelve years ago, when i came upon a herd of buffalo. it was on a preserve, and they don't care that you are in a hurry. i was almost an hour late. true story.i sure wish i had a camera with me. and to all you city folks...buffalo are bigger than they look on television.

Had the bison block me a Tallgrass Prairie Parland, Pawhuska, Ok, 35K acres three roaming herds. Open to all.

Duct tape, I was introduced to it in the early 50s. We used it to cover the gun ports on jet fighters. Believe it was used in WWII for the same purpose only called -- ready-- gun port tape.

Forgot to add I did have a camera. Great pictures. These bison were going no where. After watching for a half hour I backed out and left. Have been back once since for bison watching.

Thats an 827: cats4rent 2009-11-10 02:08:57 PM

Had the bison block me a Tallgrass Prairie Parland, Pawhuska, Ok, 35K acres three roaming herds. Open to all.

Down on the res, huh?

I really like Osage county. Even just driving highway 99 through there is enjoyable. Those Wah-Sha-She did OK for themselves in that respect.

Firefly4F4: gorgor: MONSTERTRUCK: Ah, duct tape. It's not just for diarrea any more.

APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/yg7czyt
(copy and paste)

Um, yeah, I don't think there's any way I'm journeying to a gorgor link where the guy he quotes mentions diarrhoea, Even a link NOT marked NSFW (and he's usually pretty good at that)... no way :)

Let me know if I'm actually wrong.

its pretty benign actually

AFKobel: Firefly4F4: gorgor: MONSTERTRUCK: Ah, duct tape. It's not just for diarrea any more.

APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/yg7czyt
(copy and paste)

Um, yeah, I don't think there's any way I'm journeying to a gorgor link where the guy he quotes mentions diarrhoea, Even a link NOT marked NSFW (and he's usually pretty good at that)... no way :)

Let me know if I'm actually wrong.

its pretty benign actually

I don't know, looks malignant to me.

OK, gorgor, I'm looking...

Alright, that was kinda funny :)