We had an interesting little situation this morning down here on Tybee Island. A Cessna 170 piloted by a woman with another woman as passenger was flying from central Florida to Charleston, SC. She was following the coast and as she passed over the island, her engine started sputtering and popping. I saw her make a 180, head south, and start descending. I jumped in the car and headed for the south myself. About halfway down the island where it makes a big bend, she sat it down on the beach and did a great job in the sand. It dug in pretty good. If it had been a tail dragger I'm pretty sure it would have nosed over. Turned out to be mechanical problem. Here is the plane.
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Then I got distracted by
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MERCY!
Then a baby tried to eat the plane [img]http://wsphotofews.excite.com/026/Wa/ze/cP/I944187.jpg[/img]
Then she
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left.
I got depressed because she left so I took a picture of a ship [img]http://wsphotofews.excite.com/013/Zm/OG/pQ/I210462.jpg[/img]
This is the most exciting thing to happen on this sleepy little island in a long time.