Me and a good friend, Bud, were doing a little cow-top flying when he had a sudden failure of his cooling fan belt. The belt tore into pieces, and his engine temps rose suddenly, forcing an off-field landing.
The hardest part of all was trying to get the Mini Cub unstuck out of the mud. We had to get several fellow friends and pilots to help us pull it by hand with ropes for 1/4 mile through quick-sand-like mud which was nearly 2 feet deep in some places!
No mice were injured during the making of this video, though a few sheep got spooked when we flew under their legs.
6 сен 2024