Originally Posted by Laughing_Jakal

Well....there is a carrier moored at Manhattan Island right?

Originally Posted by HuronIP

So what's your point?

Originally Posted by Tomcat

If it would have been done by a Marine Aviator.

-1950's vintage Birddog, surplus from Vietnam, riddled with bullet holes and severe combat damage.
- Time on target +/- 5 secs with Force Recon on the ground directing with a surplus PRC-90.

Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

Then bail out of it on the way back to base.

Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

Then bail out of it on the way back to base.

Originally Posted by Tomcat

How true..... retired guy got off his tail to build his own aircraft. Perhaps should have done some more preflight planning. I'm sure the FAA will have a chat with him about that.

If it would have been done by an Air Force guy.....

- $5 Billion dollar contract to build remote controlled RV-8
- Construction of facility North of Las Vegas to house satellite link and workstation to control said RV-8.
- Overhead imagery by minimum of 3 satellites and to UAVs
- Link to Command and Control Center at Macdill.
- Minimum of five Colonels and two Generals to run coffee mess.

If it would have been done by a Marine Aviator.

-1950's vintage Birddog, surplus from Vietnam, riddled with bullet holes and severe combat damage.
- Time on target +/- 5 secs with Force Recon on the ground directing with a surplus PRC-90.

Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

Then bail out of it on the way back to base.

Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

Hundreds of lives endangered

Umm … where am I supposed to land this thing?
A pilot from Virginia nearly caused a major disaster at Kennedy Airport when he brought his single-engine plane down for a landing in the path of a Boeing 747, sending controllers scrambling to get other planes out of his way, according to a published report.
Hundreds of lives were threatened over the weekend as John Prendergast la-dee-da-ed his way around the sky trying to figure out where on earth Republic Airport in Long Island was, reports The New York Post.
"I don't know what he's doing – he's going everywhere," gasped an air controller as he radioed passenger jets to tell them to steer clear of an "unknown aircraft."
A little bit lost, Prendergast made a few 360-degree turns near Kennedy before he finally figured out where he was supposed to be (not where he was, naturally) – and was guided to the Farmingdale airport by an NYPD chopper sent to get him out of the way, according to the Post.
The 69-year-old retired Navy pilot failed to make radio contact with controllers, which he should have done, after taking off Saturday morning from an airport in Martinsburg, W.VA.
Piloting a two-seat RV-7A experimental plane he built himself, Prendergast made his way up the Jersey Shore, nearing New York. He had planned to fly over water to Robert Moses State Park, then go north and west to Republic, but he somehow ended up farther west on Long Island, flying just east of Kennedy, according to the Post.
Then, to the shock of air traffic controllers, the blundering pilot flew farther north and turned around as if he were going to land with the passenger jets on Kennedy Runway 22L. A Boeing 747 on its way to New York from Atlanta actually flew over Prendergast's small plane at one point and had to abandon its landing, the Post reported.
Oops.
Prendergast hasn't been charged with anything, but the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. He couldn't be reached for comment yesterday, the Post reported.