flaming maserati's
i just got back from four glorious days in florida. i went down with some friends to the Sun N Fun fly-in just an hour outside of orlando. basically take a big field, park a few thousand airplanes on it, and have a bbq.
first day. we get there and park our car. everyone parks in this big huge grass field. they probably use this field once a year just for this purpose, so it was freshly mowed...BUT not raked. as a result there was a ton of dead, dry grass lying around. we park our car and are getting our stuff together and applying as much sunscreen as possible. i notice a little puff of white smoke coming about three or four cars away. i thought maybe someone was grilling. then more smoke starts spewing up. i walk over to go check out what is going on only to find a brand new maserati sitting there with its front right quarter panel on fire. holy shit. i froze, wasnt sure what to do. other people had taken notice. the fire starts to spread on the dry grass pretty quick. next thing you know, the caddy next to the maserati starts catching on fire too. i finally break into a run to try to find someone. i see someone that looked official and yelled at him that he has two cars on fire. because the grass was so very dry, and the response of the fire dept. so very slow, by the time the fire was put out, 24 cars had caugh on fire. about 12 of them were completely destroyed to the point where there was nothing left but a melted shell of what was once a car. rims melted, glass gone, gas tanks blown up, tires gone, everything just destroyed. the picture below is the fire in its early stage, probably only a handful of cars were lit up at this point, it got alot bigger.
other than that, the weekend was great. i got my first ride in a Pitts special (little yellow plane below). it is a monster of an aerobatic plane that i have wanted to fly ever since i saw one years and years ago. pulled out all the stops, did crazy cool maneuvers that i cant really describe to you unless you know the names of them. i looked up "lomcevack"to see if i could find a video, but didnt. i did find this description though: "a graceful end-for-end tumble on all three control axes, finishing with the aircraft in an inverted spin." lomcevak translated means headache. (pronounced lum-sha-vach)
go to mikegoulian.com and watch the video. pretty much everything he does in that video i did. not as hard, and not as fast, but youll get the idea.
a great time, a nasty sunburn, and enough barrel rolls to keep me happy for a few days. anyone want to go flying?
first day. we get there and park our car. everyone parks in this big huge grass field. they probably use this field once a year just for this purpose, so it was freshly mowed...BUT not raked. as a result there was a ton of dead, dry grass lying around. we park our car and are getting our stuff together and applying as much sunscreen as possible. i notice a little puff of white smoke coming about three or four cars away. i thought maybe someone was grilling. then more smoke starts spewing up. i walk over to go check out what is going on only to find a brand new maserati sitting there with its front right quarter panel on fire. holy shit. i froze, wasnt sure what to do. other people had taken notice. the fire starts to spread on the dry grass pretty quick. next thing you know, the caddy next to the maserati starts catching on fire too. i finally break into a run to try to find someone. i see someone that looked official and yelled at him that he has two cars on fire. because the grass was so very dry, and the response of the fire dept. so very slow, by the time the fire was put out, 24 cars had caugh on fire. about 12 of them were completely destroyed to the point where there was nothing left but a melted shell of what was once a car. rims melted, glass gone, gas tanks blown up, tires gone, everything just destroyed. the picture below is the fire in its early stage, probably only a handful of cars were lit up at this point, it got alot bigger.
other than that, the weekend was great. i got my first ride in a Pitts special (little yellow plane below). it is a monster of an aerobatic plane that i have wanted to fly ever since i saw one years and years ago. pulled out all the stops, did crazy cool maneuvers that i cant really describe to you unless you know the names of them. i looked up "lomcevack"to see if i could find a video, but didnt. i did find this description though: "a graceful end-for-end tumble on all three control axes, finishing with the aircraft in an inverted spin." lomcevak translated means headache. (pronounced lum-sha-vach)
go to mikegoulian.com and watch the video. pretty much everything he does in that video i did. not as hard, and not as fast, but youll get the idea.
a great time, a nasty sunburn, and enough barrel rolls to keep me happy for a few days. anyone want to go flying?
posted by Chris Porter at 5:01 PM
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