Stearman biplane crash in Texas - GIF

**eoverton** · Dec 4, 2021, 04:47 PM

Glad nobody was hurt. But that was *very* expensive. What the guy flying it was doing trying to take it back off a public road (which I'm sure he landed on because of a previous emergency) is quite beyond me.

It also looks like he wasn't feeding in the right amount of right rudder to correct for adverse yaw on takeoff and drifted left over what should have been his runway centerline.

I doubt the plane will get written off, but it's going to take a wheelbarrow full of money to put it back together.

**grayracecat1** · Dec 4, 2021, 08:04 PM

The pilot is very fortunate indeed, a foot higher or lower, and that traffic signal strung across the road (0:06) would have written a different ending.
I lost a pilot friend on July 3, 2011, due to an aerial phone line over a river bed in Santa Paula, CA.

**crotchetyoldbastard** · Dec 4, 2021, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by eoverton

What the guy flying it was doing trying to take it back off a public road (which I'm sure he landed on because of a previous emergency) is quite beyond me.

He was part of a parade for the Rice Festival in Winnie, Texas the first weekend in October. There are photos of the plane having been towed around by a tractor. Word is he opted to fly the plane back home rather than tow it home.

Originally Posted by eoverton

. . . drifted left over what should have been his runway centerline.

Another view of the accident shows that he ran into the median during his takeoff roll and lost a bit of steam trying to get it back on the road. There are also articles from the local news outlets that he experienced power issues, as well.