Wheel change in flight!

[bdk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oAzdbd0J2A

[mike furline]

She has more balls than me.

[tom d. friedman]

i double dog dare somebody to try that with the b-36!!! i wish my AAA AUTO ROAD SERVICE was that good!!

[Robbie Roberts]

I kinda think that one was staged: mainly because of the camera in the plane without the wheel!

Robbie

[bipe215]

Axel Olsen could have used her in The Great Waldo Pepper!

Steve G

[skybolt2003]

I kinda think that one was staged: mainly because of the camera in the plane without the wheel!

Robbie

well, yeah – but they still did it. no cgi on that one. very cool.

[Robbie Roberts]

True...

[bdk]

It amazes me how foolhardy people were in the 1930s. I doubt she had any safety equipment at all! I wonder how many people were lost performing stunts like that for just a few dollars, if anything!

[skymstr02]

How come this isn't in the "base theatre".

I mean, fairs fair, right?

Or, do double standards exist?

[skybolt2003]

It amazes me how foolhardy people were in the 1930s. I doubt she had any safety equipment at all! I wonder how many people were lost performing stunts like that for just a few dollars, if anything!

in the first segment it looked like she was putting on a parachute - then they seemed to be hooking the wheel onto a harness???
as for being foolhardy - who knows what people where feeling back then? pretty grim times and a few dollars were pretty hard to come by. maybe we'll know again if things continue along the same path as they are currently. I know a lot of desperate people who feel their options in life are diminishing. (not that you would feel for them . ..)

[bdk]

How come this isn't in the "base theatre".

I mean, fairs fair, right?

Or, do double standards exist?

My mistake... Mr. Moderator, please move this to the Base Theater!

As to the double standards, I don't know. Is this question directed at me or someone else? I can't recall the last time I posted a link to a video, I just plain forgot.

I know a lot of desperate people who feel their options in life are diminishing. (not that you would feel for them . ..)

Whoa! Kind of harsh. What did I do to deserve that personal attack?

I guess that people with "sky" in their user names have it in for me today!

[skybolt2003]

I know a lot of desperate people who feel their options in life are diminishing. (not that you would feel for them . ..)

Whoa! Kind of harsh. What did I do to deserve that personal attack?

oh c'mon. your old sig line - something along the lines of "i would feel for you but i'm consumed with apathy . . ." (forgive if i misquoted) I didn't mean it as an attack, only a jest at your your very freely stated conservative opinions posted on this site.
-Bret

[bdk]

See, you guys have beaten me down so much I'm getting defensive!

P.S. I'm not even going to vote for John McCain... How could I be conservative?

[tom d. friedman]

i have bigger fish to catch, please don't include me in the mauling. i'm here for aviation history fun

[The Inspector]

The 13 Black Cats were amongst the first Flying Stunters/Flying Circus'. Based in Los Angeles in the late teens and early 20's.
Gladys is not wearing any harness other than the sling to transport the tire, of course it was staged!
You may have seen another photgraph of the 'Cats where two guys are playing tennis on the top wing of a Standard trainer, they did almost all the very early movie flying stunts and to a man and woman, among the cleverest and bravest wing walkers/ stunters ever because in most cases, they did it first.