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Is Performing Touch And Goes On A Lake Dangerous?
There are many who believe that photos showing aircraft water skiing across the surface of a lake (like the one below) are simply fake Photoshop jobs. Check out the video of a water skiing Tiger Moth biplane below, and see if you're a believer or not...
A Piper Cub performs a water skiing display on Lake Ruataniwha, on New Zealand's South Island. Photo: © John King, NZ Aviation News
Dave Phillips eases Tiger Moth ZK-BEN onto the water at Lake Karapiro on the North Island of New Zealand...
Plainly, pilots should not attempt to replicate these sorts of routines without thorough planning, and without a strong knowledge of the physics that allow an aircraft to hydroplane in this manner.
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