Tue Oct 18, 2016, 03:19 PM
Blue_Tires (55,443 posts)
Is this the greatest ever barroom bet?
While drinking a Pilot bet he could land outside the bar, 2 hours later he touched down in central New York in a stolen aircraft. Years later he repeated the stunt because someone wouldn't believe him.
![]() 1st flight In September, 1956 after drinking heavily at a bar in New York City, Thomas Fitzpatrick made an intoxicated barroom bet that he could travel from New Jersey to New York City in 15 minutes. At 3 a.m. he stole a single engine plane from the Teterboro and flew without any lights or radio before landing on St. Nicholas Avenue near 191st Street in front of the bar where the bet was made. The New York Times called it a "fine landing" and a "feat of aeroneutics". For his illegal flight, he was fined $100 after the plane's owner refused to press charges. http://imgur.com/gallery/j2mrL http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/long-ago-a-pilot-landed-on-an-uptown-street-thats-where-the-bar-was/?_r=0
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Blue_Tires | Oct 2016 | OP |
rurallib | Oct 2016 | #1 | |
Joe Chi Minh | Oct 2016 | #7 | |
Major Nikon | Oct 2016 | #2 | |
Brother Buzz | Oct 2016 | #6 | |
Hassin Bin Sober | Oct 2016 | #3 | |
world wide wally | Oct 2016 | #4 | |
Midnight Writer | Oct 2016 | #8 | |
Iggo | Oct 2016 | #9 |
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 09:25 PM
rurallib (58,786 posts)
1. History! That's why I come to the Lounge
Response to rurallib (Reply #1)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 12:53 PM
Joe Chi Minh (15,229 posts)
7. If anyone had any lingering doubts... only in America..... It cuts
so many ways, some bad, some good, some off-the-dial crazy.
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Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 10:20 PM
Major Nikon (35,776 posts)
2. The plane looks like a Stinson
Many of them are still flying
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Response to Major Nikon (Reply #2)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 11:11 PM
Brother Buzz (31,354 posts)
6. Cessna 140
The landing gear is all wrong for a Stinson.
It (at least one of the thefts) was a Cessna 140 ![]() ![]() |
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 10:31 PM
Hassin Bin Sober (25,008 posts)
3. He went on to have a distinguished career as an airline pilot.
Response to Hassin Bin Sober (Reply #3)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 11:18 AM
world wide wally (20,957 posts)
4. Still one of the funniest shows ever. ^
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 02:29 AM
Midnight Writer (15,709 posts)
8. Didn't George W Bush have a similar story?
Response to Midnight Writer (Reply #8)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 03:36 AM
Iggo (45,546 posts)
9. Nah. You're thinking of Brian Williams.
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