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Originally Posted by pavulon
Yes...really scary.
Was his gear up or down?
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To be honest, I could not tell you. I could only see the nose and belly as I looked up after hearing my wife making the comment "what are they doing? A cub just took off". I looked up and over the top of a 170 wing parked in front of us I saw the nose and belly at a high angle of attack and it looked real bad. In that split second, I was out of my lawn chair sprinting left as fast as I could while yelling at my wife to run. I ran about 100 feet and hearing no explosion or mayhem, I turned around and it was over.
Most everyone who was nearby that actually saw it start to finish pretty much claimed he appeared to be making his base to final turn and that he appeared to mush towards the crowd, then recovered slightly then mushed again dropping a wingtip to contact the ground which spun him nearly 180 degrees where it stopped. For the split second I saw him, I would say he was about 75' off the ground nose way high pointed south.