Flying through trees... cheating?

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Originally Posted by MACADEMIC

Good post.

I sometimes descend below the highest treetops to zig zag between them when being pursued and there is no other escape. I would do the same in a real plane if that's my only chance of survival.

If I do this I do everything to avoid a collision with any part of a tree, but of course it sometimes happens. I don't like it but if my plane keeps flying I consider myself lucky.

I remember an old pilot telling me the story of how he nearly crashed into a hillside in fog in Papa-Newguinea in a DC-3, and how they later picked up a few branches from the undercarriage. He lived to tell the story...

MAC

agree with u bud

a neighbour of my parents who fly in dc3 dakota during the indochina war tell me the piece of trees were in the wheel of tail of his dc3 when he drop a supplies for the frenchies troops at dien bien phu...at the end of the indochina war the frenchies crews must take o lot of risks(fly at the top of the trees)to escape to the viet minth air-air guns...