"S-Turns on a Highway" UCAP430

That's not flying car... and the circular runway just won't go away... Followups on Flight Following, and Wake Turbulence in the flight levels... Two neat off field landings... Remembering Doolittle's Raiders. This and more in Uncontrolled Airspace. Recorded April 25, 2017.

Posted: 2017-05-03 | Recorded: 2017-04-25

Is That a Droon? Kitty Hawk Flyer - A human-carrying drone on pontoons. (00:00:10)
- Video commercial for this, um, er, flying car-boat-quadcopter-trampoline-thang.
Coming Full Circle... Forbes revisits the whole circular runway thing (00:09:35)
Intros and Chit-Chat (00:13:06)
Listener Feedback (00:17:00)
- Listener davidpatton111 offers some feedback in the Forums about Flight Following.
  - Amazon search link to Jeff Kanarish and his "Radio Mastery" books and workbooks.
- Listener Grant McHerron (@falcon124) tweeted about using offset tracks to avoid wake turbulence
Tip Jar Jack begs for money. (00:27:32)
OFLOTW-1: Barely Submerged! An under-dressed pilot and passenger ditch in shallow water (00:28:25)
OFLOTW-2: Squiggly Centerline? After a successful on-road landing, a Cessna pilot does radical s-turns on the highway - not sure why. No brakes? (00:36:02)
Best Take-off Scene Ever? 18 B-25s perform formation takeoff in "Catch-22" movie. (00:39:40)
- Original raw (silent) footage from the Doolittle Raid.
- Info on Airventure's Doolittle Raid remembrance at OSH17
Long Live the Queen! One of the last Boeing 747-200 aircraft is retired (00:49:40)
A Chip off the Block: James Wiebe's Belite Chipper takes its first hops (00:56:50)
Shout Outs (00:58:30)
- The folks at Million Air Orlando/Sanford for taking such good care of Jeb
- Sun'n Fun International Fly-In Expo releases numbers for the 2017 event
- Deland Sport Aviation Expo
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