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Do you think you would be able to get a hangar at your local airport? Your options for LSAs opens up quite a bit if you can buy a plane that doesn't have to sit out in the rain and sun.

Looking through Barnstormers etc it seems like if you go for a less popular experimental (i.e. not an RV or a Kitfox), you can get a lot of plane for your money. Planes seem to go for less than they would cost to build. You can get a Sonex on Barnstormers for $20K-$30K and although they're not...

Just grew it out as long as you can stand and then to to a barber, who will make it look lovely for you.

Given that RVs all use buck rivets, wouldn't it be pretty hard to do that all single-handed?

I know people like to think of states as being 'red states' and 'blue states', but most of them are just slightly varying shades of purple. Michigan voters voted for JB about 3% more than they voted for DT. Florida voters voted for DT about 3% more than they voted JB. Even in Texas DB only got...

You could always keep the Bonanza for fast cross country flying, and get an ultralight for times when you just want to noodle around in the sky by yourself.

I'm curious about the logistics of clearing up plane wreckage like that. I figure you'd need someone to be able to get out there and fit the straps etc beforehand who would have to make their own way back - seems like it'd be a bit of a hike to get up there and back. Hopefully Trevor remembered...

Sonex aircraft are designed for gentle aerobatics, and they're cheap as chips - ones currently on sale are between $25k and $35k. Most of them only have an 85hp engine, but with a 1,100lbs max gross (950lbs for aerobatics), that might not be too limiting.

At 2:42 - on the web browser version of YouTube you can frame skip back and forth using , and . when it's paused. https://imgur.com/YQE2iJx

He managed to keep it for a bit. It was slapping around behind his head at first, but later you can see it gets dragged out above him and you can actually see the frame in which the cable finally untangles itself from him and is never seen again. I guess if you want a free headset, check out...

You're right - there's certainly something in his pant leg - how do you know it's a fire extinguisher?

Given that he was unsuccessful in keeping his headset (along with its yellow 'Trevor Jacob' sticker) I'm not sure any tips he have would be of any use.

Well... I guess it's just that he's done such a bad job of faking the engine out parts of the video, it'd be weird if there weren't very obvious errors he'd made in the other parts if he was faking much of that as well. I realize he's done a lot of chopping and changing with the sequence and...

As others have said, SPL definitely sounds like the right thing to do, although you may find it harder to find LSAs to train with near you.

The one thing I wonder is that if it really was premeditated, what did he expect to happen when he landed? Wouldn't you pack some water? He mentions there being water in the plane, perhaps he forgot to bring it with him? I wondered when watching it whether he took his parachute with him to make...

Well, that would explain why it wasn't connected!

The fuel tank in that plane is in front of the instrument panel - you can see one in this picture of someone restoring one: http://www.taylorcraftbc-65.com/uploads/3/4/3/7/34378036/5452075_orig.jpg As I understand it there is a auxiliary tank in the wing, and once the main tank is half empty...

Given that we can now be fairly sure it crashed while still containing several gallons of fuel, it seems quite lucky there wasn't a fire. I guess the engine had been air-cooled a lot by the time it hit, but there still could have been a spark or two on impact.

This video is interesting if only because the host interviews an A&P who got his tailwheel in that airplane and also did a couple of annuals for it up until a couple of years ago.

The long/lat on that report seems to be a bit off.