Aviation Safety Explained. Why biplanes are safer than mono wingers. WARNING: Contains Levity

Aviation Safety Explained. Why biplanes are safer than mono wingers. WARNING: Contains Levity, Hyperbole, and snatches of Sarcasm.
New pilots are cautioned on content.

[@genericjonathan4115]

Makes you wonder why they even put engines on these things, just adds so much more that can go wrong.

[@davidgubert1883]

One more very important safety feature of the biplane: if your seatbelt fails during negative Gs you will not hurt your neck hitting the cockpit ceiling. Enclosed cockpits are inherently dangerous.

[@nightshift5201]

😆

[@keithgraham6889]

Your right about being safer. 4/14/93 near Colfax, Wa. the Ag Cat I was flying gave up all nine lives to save mine. I was hit from behind by a Navy A6-e Intruder. Thanks for sharing all your wisdom about aircrafts, it has opened my eyes to the fine details we don't think about!?! Thankyou

[@ronrogers]

Wow, what a story! Thanks for the nice comments.

[@SimonWallwork]

Blame Grumman....

[@briansalsbery9968]

Wow! I just watched some footage that included what was left of your plane. Amazing you survived

[@sincerelyyours7538]

Beautiful Great Lakes Biplane. I was a pilot once. Lost the medical when my flight surgeon found out I was a cancer survivor. They don't like survivors for some reason.

[@ronrogers]

You might revisit that. I know of cancer survivors who have a medical.

[@user-pe4xf6hd5q]

Investigate Basic Med.

[@vinquinn]

It needs another horizontal stabilizer and elevator. Then it will truly be a biplane.

[@po1ly414]

Nah, it needs a second fuselage too

[@ghorn3136]

@@po1ly414 and another powerplant

[@jacksemporiumofstuff]

Maybe it's just bi-curious

[@moi01887]

Ron... you skipped two important safety features on the 1-winger! First, with 6 fuel tanks, the fuel gets so confused it doesn't know where to go. So you can never run out! You also forgot to mention the extra propeller on the ceiling of the hangar. That generates small amounts of lift that accumulate on the aircraft, making it fly better.

[@markwybierala4936]

What a beautiful airplane. I really like how the left-hand side appears to be a mirror image of the right-hand side.

[@vinquinn]

Had a ride in one of these about 25 years ago. Super nice day and I loved it.

[@ronrogers]

Very cool!

[@timcastle165]

OMG I can’t stop laughing, Awesome video!! New subscriber and can’t wait to see more of your video’s!!!! 🛸

[@ronrogers]

Yay! Thank you!

[@bisbonian4085]

I had Hatz 18 for about ten years or so. There came a point that my wife said it was time to quit flying. I should have kept "Snoopy" though.

[@oleran4569]

OMG! That was the more betterest aeroplaine class ever!

[@JillandKevin]

Thanks for the entertainment Ron!!! Beautiful Great Lakes!!!!!

[@ronrogers]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@JillandKevin]

@@ronrogers Me too!!!

[@compu85]

I always learn so much from your videos. So informative!

[@pauldilliard4755]

Are you thinking about doing Standup? 

[@ronrogers]

No, it's hard to stand up in a biplane 🤣🤣

[@wiljam1968]

I feel the need to point out that when referring the Great Lakes, we just refer to it as The Lakes, because there’s nothing great about it.

[@boyvanurk9854]

😂😂😂 Fortunately you've got these wires all over the place to be able to slow down this slick little machine 😂

[@josephpadula2283]

My plane has a sticker that says Do not Bend , fold , spindle or mutilate !

[@LJDRVR]

Nice Lakes, Ron! My Stearman wants to know what those shiney, teardrop-shaped thingies are covering your wheel? Pants you say? Never heard of 'em.

[@ronrogers]

funny!!

[@josephpadula2283]

Do they call them Trousers in the UK or something?

[@1crustyoldmsgtretired870]

A pro-peller you say? I always thought it was a fan to help keep the pilot cool

[@sganzerlag]

ROFL ROFL. I have the same issue at my home airport with the C150s logging xcountry time on the pattern. I love biplanes too. Especially the open-cockpit ones. Thanks for sharing your beautiful Great Lakes with us here.

[@HighTide1715]

Just watched this video for the 1st. time. Funny stuff ! Thanks Ron !

[@SimonWallwork]

Extra wings? It'll never catch on.

[@aviatortrucker6285]

The only thing I remember, is, the aileron is usually on the upper or lower wing. If the upper or lower wing becomes damaged, then the lower wing is useless, as far as keeping the aircraft level and stable, unless it is done so with one aileron on the opposite side. However, it is one of the most beautiful aircraft I’ve ever seen probably a pleasure to fly.

[@practiCalfMRI]

Flying acro in the open cockpit of a Lakes makes you pay WAY more attention to the way you put the 'chute on and then fasten the Hooker harness.... especially that lap belt. A good rule of thumb is to check the lap restraint half a dozen times prior to taxi, then another half a dozen as part of your CIGARSSSSSS checks during run-up. Those extra S's? Seat belts. Seat belts. Seat belts? Yup, check, seat belts. You wanna check a dozen times I'm not going to fault you. Nothing, repeat nothing gets your attention quicker than your ass moving *at all* during that first inverted check. Btw I've always thought the flying wires were for slicing geese, thereby preserving the leading edges of the wings.

[@mikescarborough9196]

I want a hangar like that when I grow up. I'm 60 so I need to get busy.

[@knwclu]

Wait, what a rudd..... a rudder? Is that the dohickey that deals with Paul Rudd?

[@timking2822]

A new look a aviation safey.

[@jimbalsbaugh7365]

You make me smile so many times!🤣

[@vg23air]

They only part of your presentation that I found TRIGGERING was the use of the patriarchal term COCK PIT, in case you missed that advisory, it is now called the GENITAL PIT. I thank you

[@ronrogers]

Yes, have to be so carful!

[@MateuszPerlak]

Parachute to get help 😂 hilarious

[@aviatortrucker6285]

That was a very interesting and amusing presentation. However, you should’ve shown the instrumentation in the one winger because I’m sure a lot of people would love like to see the TV screens in there, so you can watch movies and KZbin while you fly. By the way, when I learned how to fly about the time, you started, your T 37 career, I learned all the different instruments in the airplane right away. One of the first things I learned was RPM, which stood for the name of the manufacturer who made tachometers. I had a chance also to meet Mr. Hobbs, which was the guy that made those cool looking odometers, but unfortunately, he told me never had time for anything.

[@who2u333]

Nice blue on that

[@jcheck6]

Best part I liked was the pic on the wall, "UAL Pilots on Strike." Former 570er here but went elsewhere. Glass in the cockpit of a '29 aircraft? Beautiful a/c Ron but I am still partial to my -8.

[@ronrogers]

Thanks for noticing the strike poster! Sorry you did not stick around things finally turned around.

[@jcheck6]

You never know until you retire. My back up turned out to be the correct one....only major that preserved their DBP thru BK's and mergers. Glad it worked out for you.@@ronrogers

[@ronrogers]

Absolutely right. You never know how it will work out until the day you retire!

[@ristauliimattafilms]

Hilarious. Very well done.

[@46bovine]

O.K., Ron, why did you those unsafe single wing airliners? BAAAWAAAAHAHAHAAAAA!

[@sergeykoshelev4566]

Nice one. Had a good laugh.

[@pauldilliard4755]

Good come back

[@theinspiringengineer-scien6393]

Alas ballons don't have any wings at all and should bbe avoided!!! :D :D

[@wallywally8282]

If you lose either wing it’s your time to become a statistic! Lolol

[@ronrogers]

You did note the sarcasm warning! ;-)

[@b.chuchlucious5471]

< Fokker Dr-1 has entered the chat > NEIN!

[@josephpadula2283]

Is your elevator an Otis?

[@sblack48]

If it’s so much simpler why is it so &$# expensive??? (Saw you at Blakesburg)

[@ronrogers]

Safety is just expensive!

[@josephpadula2283]

Passenger or Air bag for rear pilot?

[@ingolister6414]

Ron your going to rub your tongue to a nub from stabbing it into your cheek too often.

[@ronrogers]

A true causality of tongue tubbing.

[@seamuscashin2606]

a few mistakes my friend the aileron cables are on the bottom wing push pull to top if bottom cable brake you are screwed no 2 the strength is based on the whole structure all the wires need to be fixed to its neighbor if bottom or top fails you are also screwed not safer than mono so why are the so scarce

[@ronrogers]

Yes of course, and many more issues. But the point was satire.

[@seamuscashin2606]

hi ron im inspired. flying along in my biplane the top wings have long gone, along with that lovely set of flying wires but thank god the landing wires are still on so im singing a happy song. now you could always invert and land/ now where did i see this lately bonjoir tolouse. now thats satire and bad spelling /

[@GennaroAvolio]

You forgot about visibility. The wings are always in the way.

[@ronrogers]

Yes, that is true, but being an aerobatic and highly maneuverable aircraft, a quick wing dip clears the area.

[@pittss2c601]

Pitts Special all day long!

[@robertl606]

HAHAHAHA Epic video sir.

[@BADonnelly65]

😂

[@pauldilliard4755]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

🤭🤭🤭

[@daleevans3250]