Twilight STOL Competition (Monday Part 1) - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 

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Looks like Hal had them all beat! Not bad for an engine he installed on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.

This is very cool. Wish Draco was competing, but a great showing by Lawn Mower after an engine swap en route to Oshkosh.

So glad that Hal made it to the show!

Give'm hell Hal. True bush pilot

That turbocharged Yamaha sounds awesome and performs great on Steve Henry's number 44.

First up, our buddy Hal in the Lawn Mower III. A Flying Cowboy.

This is what true basic amateur and experimental aviation is all about. Seat of the pants flying, on the edge, using raw skill and basic, often home built aircraft to do the near impossible. Like the Barnstormers of the early days of flying, these airplanes and their pilots are today's real life dare devil pioneers. Keeping alive the dream of flight, withing the financial range of nearly everyone. Love it!

Love how you can hear Steve Henry's turbo ripper!!

Looks lovely like Hal nailed it!

Looks like Trent wasn't quite on his A-game today.

Captain Hal for the win !!

The ultimate flex would have been to take off and land in the first 2 minutes of the video without getting out of order.

These planes and pilots are just amazing to me!!!

Just was at Oshkosh for Friday's event! Hal was awesome. Very cool to watch!

Is that Trent Palmer I see?

Yes ! Lawn mower made it !!

Planes and a sunset, don't get better than that!

44 is powered by angry bees lol

Good to see my friend CC Pocock in there as well with the BUSH AIR Cessna, you go mate.

Ah-MAZ!NG VIDEO Keep up the goooO.Ooood work, man!

Dude, in the tent, wearing a red t shirt...slumped out and over...and, at the start/finish line, too...the excitement and all...

WOW absolutely awesome!

The Boys are back in town again

Those are the pilots I would fly with anytime....very skilled.

I'd like to see a STOL competition where the aircraft have to carry the weight if a drum of diesel fuel or some such load the a working bush plane would typically have to deliver.

I played a where's waldo game trying to find myself in the crowd

flipping awesome show!😀

Well filmed guys!

great vid - front row seat!

was gonna say i recognized some of these guys, then realized, that's why YT recommended this vid.

That was great!

Simply nice!

In my opinion (which what do I know lol) stol planes will save general aviation

Wow Hal's 3 second takeoff was 2 shorter than Palmer's. Interesting.

Jesus. I just heard of STOL today. These are some incredible pilots. Holy shit.

Good friend told me on the phone last night he wasn't impressed with the TO performance of Steve Henry's new turbo Yamaha in this vid, so I looked it up today to see for myself. After watching gotta admit I too was expecting more - Like VTO, lol. I think he took off in 57' last year with a NA Yamaha (with my Mohawk Aero Co. gearbox adapter on it) that cost a fraction of this engine - and he won every STOL contest at Oshkosh plus Grand Champ. Steve's TO here looks a lot longer than that, and although his mains are clear at 75' his tail wheel leaves the ground at 100'. Ah, well, then again maybe he just doesn't have the luck o' the Irish from running MAC equipment like he did last year... Wish I was at Oshkosh today instead of working. Nice to see Hal bounce back from the EO and then do so well, that little Rotax gets him clean off in 75' here.

Good show !

Nice . . . Thanks for Sharing my favorite category of planes. Bob

Great video. Thanks. When will part 2 be published?

Lawn mower 2 looks hard to beat ......good job by all

Was the one that landed well short of starting point, thus DQ'd a Ran's S6ES? I was really impressed with it's TO!

Hal killed it in the lawn mower

Turbo planes are just wild

That's so great but I wanted more sooo bad....lol

woah turbo planes? they sound awesome

GOOD JOB HAL!!!

The Siiimpsons...

I guess Draco is in the fighter catagory..

Part 2 Part 2 Part 2!!!!!

Captain Hal is a beast! Go lawn mower!

Looks like light weight (Lawn Mower III) might have won out over high power (Yee Haw 7) on takeoff! Edit: Although, I think Yee Haw 7 landed shorter.

Nice

Looks like at the beginning of the video it’s a bunch of planes acting like ground bases vehicles having a race

LIKE-SLAP!! from the Home of the LIKE-SLAP

Likes dem Cowboys! Those all look good though

These are awesome machines. If anyone who pilots one of these aircraft needs a super cool place to rent for next year's eaa just let me know. My place has its own hangers and enough room to land for these aircraft. Currently has beds for 15 but can add as many as needed. Indoor pool. In Peshtigo wi.

Does anyone have a link to the results? Thanks.

i know the first two guys. its hal and Trent. glad hal made it!

I think all of them did a short takeoff.

Considering Hal has about 200 horse power less,I think the tans did very good.

Do they have that competition daily? If so, what time? Thanks.

Henry FTW!

Did you get footage of any of the other days?

What's the tail number on c14?

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whıch plane is that yellow 44number ?

i was there somewhere in the crowd

On Trent's landing approach, was that beeping his ground proximity warning? If so, damn that thing's loud! It gets a bit annoying with onboard footage. But hey, safety first! A volume control would be handy. It sounds just like the reversing sensor I installed on my Dad's ute (short for utility for those wondering wtf, (truck for Americans!)) which had poor rear visibility due to the bed canopy. It didn't have any volume control, just loud beeps with differing frequency, to let you know how close an obstacle was. But it suited my Dad fine as his hearing wasn't the best anyway!😄

wheres the rest of it?

3:27 CMON TRENT!!!!

Looked like Hal had the shortest, even with the unnecessary weight of a second headset hanging behind him!

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Ground loop ground loop ground loop.

I see Freedom Fox I click.....

Isn't the announcer kind of useless?! Were they "cruising"?! I didn't think that they would fly. But it looked great. Great filming. Great flying. Just Great !!!

Where is Draco

Anonymous guy takes off with 100ft TO roll at 3:10: total silence from audience Trent Palmer just right after him takes off at 150ft TO roll about as twice long: total WHOAAAAAH! from audience :D

44 almost flipped over on the grass runway, way too much brakes!

They wont have any champagne onboard huh..

Trent Palmer

Anyone a little disappointed in trent

My boy trent in the thumbnail

Only thing better is if the announcer had stayed home. Can’t stand the endless blabbering.

Go to 2:55 to skip silly parade.

Show more flying cowboy shit its what we want.

44 would be bad ass with a better pilot

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