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World record combined Take-Off/Landing!

Another look at Bobby Breeden's fourth consecutive win and reported new world record for combined take-off/landing! 20 foot landing, 24 foot takeoff!Talk about a SUPER cub! :)Video by David Canales

Posted by The Alaska Life on Wednesday, 13 May 2015

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That’s gotta be an original Cub. Can’t think of any other aircraft that could do that. Great!

At a Berlin airshow I watched a WWII Storch take off backwards! the headwind was greate than the takeoff speed so the pilot just released the brakes and with the engine at low the aircraft took off backwards. Interesting!

When taking my private license years ago the examiner gave me one last test to see if I could truly handle the aircraft and told me to touch down at the first intersection and turn off at the second intersection without touching my brakes. With full flap and airspeed just above stall I came down the final approach, my wheels chirping just inside the first intersection and with full reduction of power I turned off at the second intersection. Expecting kudos from the instructor I parked the aircraft only to have him tear a strip off of me. It seemed that he was satisfied with my handling the airplane long time ago but he had doubts about my piloting skills since as pilot in command I should have told the CFI that maneuver was unsafe and just landed normally. Lesson learned.

As a non-pilot, I didn’t understand the significance of the video…
Perhaps the title should be changed to “World Record Shortest Combined Take-Off/Landing”?

Wow, who needs a helicopter?!

Impressive. That falls into the category ‘ridiculously short’. There are countless rivers in the North worth fishing that would be accessible to that aircraft and its pilot. The Twin Otter – one of my faves – couldn’t land as short, or on as soft a surface.

Flew and in the Twin for 8 years. When you have to abort (on floats) a take off because there is a darn moose in your way,welllllllll,,,,it’s interesting.

Oh. Should also add. The Twin, on grass, full flaps, 5 kt headwind, full power, 300 ft to be airborne. Same scenario landing, 500 ft full stop. It’s not called a STOL for fun.

I haven’t flown in 10 years, but even in a Cessna 172, a short field landing was always a great felling of accomplishment. Always hard exiting the plane after greasing a landing because I’d grow about six inches taller!
These Cub videos are awesome.

What EarlW said. Well, it took me awhile to “get it” … plane takes off in about 30 feet and lands in about the same.
Impressive. Could land backwards at Lethbridge some days. ☺

Super Cub by Piper. Amazing!!

Love those bush wheels.

It’s a Piper PA-18 Super Cub.

I find this tactic common amongst the ‘discipline minded’ elites.
the constant and fundamental problem is you do not know which option to choose. and in fact there is no ‘correct’ choice. my suspicions are its all a head game designed to maintain a sense of power; that is, you lose either way. if you object based on the dangerous nature of the order you’re immediately labelled as a ‘non-team player’ or coward or whatever. complying results in that described by Joe’s experience.
I once chided the brass at the local armed forces recruiting centre. what, I demanded, would a grunt do if faced with an order from a very senior commander that they thought could result in war crimes charges? what? defy the order and get court marshalled or obey the order and wind up in the newspapers as a participant in such and such episode years later?
they had no answer. and remember dear reader, this actually happened at Nuremberg. ‘ve vere zhust fossosink horders’ syndrome.
what is a military grunt to do when faced with this dilemma? court-martialed for disobeying a senior commander or time in prison for war crimes?

Which reminds me of the time I was flyin’ into this remote lake in my Harrier with my ol Greater Glengarry Moosehound Jerome, and one of them rare but terrible polar hurricanes forced me to land on a beaver hut. The next morning, when visibility had improved to 5 meters and the wind had dropped to 97 mps, I took off with the beaver hut froze stiff to the landing gear….

Nine years on the twin for me, almost 4 on a piston otter. I have a soft spot for deHavillands, over half my time is in them. Shortest take-off I’ve done was in a piston Otter, under ideal conditions, -25C and a 10 knot headwind. Was leaving an exploration camp empty on straight skis which froze down in the time it took to unload. One of the workers asked how much lake I needed to get airborne, I suggested he measure my tracks. Proceeded to set max-power and the tail came up, wiggled the rudder to break the skis free and what felt like the length of the plane I was flying. Dropping off the next load I was informed my take-off run was 25 yards. The Twin is king of the short landings, you could plant it rather firmly and not worry about bouncing which helped in getting it to whoa up. Used to only use about 600 feet of a gravel beach for take-off and landing to service a camp up on the Bay. When the wind blew on the tundra – which is always – you could post some rediculously short landings.

when I worked at dehavilland most of us wished we had kept building them.

That is not a stock Super Cub. It has leading edge cuffs to reduce stall speed. It also sounds like there was quite a bit of wind that would help with STOL (Short Take Off and Landing). Still… Impressive.

Jamie –
I don’t believe your story. A Harrier high-centers on beaver huts. Unless you had bush/balloon ties on your Harrier – then I’d believe you, but you would have mentioned those if you did. So, shenanigans!

Floats, Ken. My landing gear was floats.
I figured you’da picked up on that when I said I was flyin’ into a remote lake.
Jeez, some people…ya gotta explain everything!