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10-22-2014, 04:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by Brantel
I know nothing of the photo or the circumstances. The co-worker does not either.
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LOL! I always try to refrain from calling someone a BS'er without more info.
No matter if it was shop'd, staged, or the gut job finished off after the fact... the crime scene was definitely tampered with. I just hope the meat didn't go to waste. 
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10-22-2014, 06:38 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Bowdoinham
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Folks...BEWARE THE INTERNET.
The pilot here lives 1/4 mile up the road from me. He called me the day before yesterday (Monday) to tell me about the incident. He said he wanted to keep a low profile on the whole business, and I agreed with him.
He's a 25 year USAF vet (a wrench), and I wouldn't have built my -8 without his help and advice. The strip behind his house he carved out of the woods himself.
He spent 11 years building his -3, how would you feel if this happened to you?
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10-22-2014, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by YellowPeril
Folks...BEWARE THE INTERNET.
The pilot here lives 1/4 mile up the road from me. He called me the day before yesterday (Monday) to tell me about the incident. He said he wanted to keep a low profile on the whole business, and I agreed with him.
He's a 25 year USAF vet (a wrench), and I wouldn't have built my -8 without his help and advice. The strip behind his house he carved out of the woods himself.
He spent 11 years building his -3, how would you feel if this happened to you?
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Well then... somebody, he knows pretty well, took the picture and posted it on the internet... without being so cordial to his secretive plight. Cat's out of the bag. You can see a grin on his face too. So let's hear the whole story... it's not like the FAA and PETA are going to come hunting him down.
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10-22-2014, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Round Rock, TX
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Sure enough... on reddit.com it states "my friend hit a deer with his plane".
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10-22-2014, 08:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: NW San Antonio Boerne Stage Airfield 5C1
Posts: 160
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Deer
I am very surprised that some of the people posting think hitting a deer funny. Bet you would not think it was funny if it happened to you.
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10-23-2014, 07:46 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: ____
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FLIR
Always a concern at sundown and sun up, at least where I base. A GRT FLIR camera / EFIS display almost makes sense if it would let you see the deer off to the sides of the runway.
On a few occasions multiple low passes have been needed to clear the deer away before landing. Take offs give you fewer options.
That looks like a very fine job of driving! Not nice for the RV but it could have been much worse.
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10-23-2014, 08:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Houston
Posts: 2,012
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Originally Posted by enielsen
Well then... somebody, he knows pretty well, took the picture and posted it on the internet... without being so cordial to his secretive plight. Cat's out of the bag. You can see a grin on his face too. So let's hear the whole story... it's not like the FAA and PETA are going to come hunting him down.
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As long as we're guessing. I'm betting the deer did indeed get whacked. Must have been producing a lot of power to whack it in two. But I'm guessing the pieces were set in front of the plane for proper photo documentation of the event.
As for it being funny. Maybe, maybe not. I personally hate to see a scratch on an RV. As for the deer - there is no shortage of them in my neck of the woods.
Last edited by Low Pass : 10-23-2014 at 08:38 AM.
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10-23-2014, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Unless he forgot to yell "clear" and the the deer was standing midsection to the rotation of the prop I am going to call fake. Seems there would be more cuts on the deer had he been moving.
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10-23-2014, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,516
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Hind sight ?
I would have staged that poor deer with its head facing the other way.
A seriously new perspective on hind sight.
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