{"id":619950,"date":"2023-03-20T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/plane-landstakes-off-in-only-20-feet-2013\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T14:50:09","slug":"plane-landstakes-off-in-only-20-feet-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/plane-landstakes-off-in-only-20-feet-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane Lands&#x2F;Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I posted a video earlier today of <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/11\/crazy-plane-landing-on-a-mountain\">a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain<\/a>. Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall speed and short take-off and landing distances. But I had no idea you could land and take off in one in the space of 20 feet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7u1jzjFL8s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Never seen a plane do that before\u2026well, aside from tiny model planes. What an incredible power-to-weight ratio that plane must have. You can seriously land these things anywhere, almost like a helicopter. Wanna go fly fishing? Just set it down on the banks of a stream:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LN0Pm0m8pZ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or on a gravel bar in a river:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6B8-PNYjzk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These planes are referred to as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STOL\">STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenithair.com\/stolch801\/design\/design.html\">here\u2019s some detail on how they work<\/a>. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alper\">@alper<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong title=\"Mar 20, 2023\">Update:<\/strong> Is this the shortest takeoff in history? <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMVjYT6laKo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Six feet. Six. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebee\">@mikebee<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>More about&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/tag\/flying\">flying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/tag\/video\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/11\/plane-landstakes-off-in-only-20-feet\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Rubi Mcnaught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a video earlier today of a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain. Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall speed and short take-off and landing distances. But I had no idea you could land and take off in one in the space of 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1791,22834,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-619950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lands","8":"category-plane","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}