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Definitely an aviation fan. Started when I was 11 making rubber powered model planes, moved on to “control line” with small ‘nitro’ powered engines & finally had a 1 channel radio control plane (you pressed the one button once for left rudder, twice for right rudder, thrice for up elevator & 4 times for down elevator. The motor was uncontrolled! I soldered together the transmitter & receiver from kits. The Tx had valves whereas the Rx was cutting edge tech using transistors!) the year before I went to Uni in 1968. After that I had a long hiatus until I got back into RC in 2008 with electrics. The high point was competing in a couple of IMAC competitions where you fly routines of 10 aerobatic maneuvers over several rounds in front of judges who give points for how accurately you fly.
In the interim between ‘68 & ‘08 I did a lot of flying on business as a consulting engineer & vacations. Without a doubt the most memorable was a trip to northern Saskatchewan where we were doing baseline environmental studies for a Uranium mine. I flew Air Canada from Toronto to Saskatoon then next morning at 6am got on a 6 seater twin engine plane to fly 600 km north to Wollaston Lake where we landed on a gravel strip overlooking the lake. While the pilot unrolled his sleeping bag to have a nap under the plane, we walked down to the lake & climbed aboard a single engined Beaver on floats. We took off and flew 30 mins and landed on a small lake next to the mining camp. Finally two of us climbed into a small helicopter with the pilot and flew around to inspect four flow gauging sites located on small creeks in the vicinity. Once that was done by late afternoon we reversed the process & got back to Toronto the next day.
One last memory which I just thought of which I think equals the Wollaston L. trip. In 2010 I was building an RC model of a single engined bi-plane called a Fox Moth (very similar to a Tiger Moth but with a fuselage that can hold 3/4 passengers). Mine was based upon one which flew site-seeing tours from the beach at Southport in NW England where I was born. I discovered the plane still existed & was owned by someone in Northamptonshire so I contacted him & asked if I could visit & take pictures of the plane to use in building/decorating the model. The owner graciously agreed & so I went & got loads of pics. Then to my surprise he pulled it out of the hangar & took me for a 15 minute flight around the local area. An amazing experience to fly in a bi-plane built in the 1930’s which is covered in “doped” canvas & started life carrying passengers between various points in Scotland!
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Steve Raw wrote: I want to go hang-gliding, but it's super dangerous.
Letting the google AI agent due the search for me so no idea if they are right...
"60 deaths per year due to ultralight aircraft crashes"
"roughly 3.5 hang gliding deaths per year"
But it is what I would expect.
I notice you didn't mention wingsuits.
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I watch aviation accident reports all the time ... Mentour Pilot is a very good channel for that on YouTube - very professional.
My excuse for that is that it gives me a "exterior" view as a sysadmin on how well you need to be prepared for any disasters ...
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Quote: The so-called Dutch roll, said to have been named after an ice-skating technique attributed to the Netherlands
according to a BBC article.
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Interesting.
Because I was under the impression that ice skating is prevalent in Alpine countries. And Netherlands is not one of them.
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I even see some of the figures playing a game of curling 
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A TV report said that a Dutch Roll is a side to side motion caused by application of the pedals that cause the nose of the plane to move in a figure 8 pattern horizontally. They said the passengers might not notice this type of motion but it would freak out the pilots if they were not actively controlling the pedals.
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So what is Dutch about that? (I guess that is what the OP really was curious about.)
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Shruggs: and Google says:
What is a "Dutch roll"? "Dutch roll" is a name given to the combination of a yawing motion when the tail slides and the plane rocks from wingtip to wingtip. It is said to mimic the movement of a Dutch ice skater.
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I take issue with the word "roll". I think it should be called the Dutch Yaw, because from what the (terribly uninformative) youtube / newscast(er) described, I believe it was a yaw and in no way a roll.
If I hear a jet-liner rolled I'm thinking serious stuff. But this was a yaw, like turning to the right and back to the left.
You think maybe they were trying to sensationalize the story a bit?
No, no, not the news. 
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The way I heard the explanation of the Dutch Roll is that it also involves the ailerons, so yes, there is a roll component to the motion.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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 raddevus wrote: I take issue with the word "roll". I think it should be called the Dutch Yaw, because from what the (terribly uninformative) youtube / newscast(er) described, I believe it was a yaw and in no way a roll.
If I hear a jet-liner rolled I'm thinking serious stuff. But this was a yaw, like turning to the right and back to the left.
You think maybe they were trying to sensationalize the story a bit?
No, no, not the news. 
A Dutch Roll is actually a roll that occurs as a result of a yaw. If you're flying an airplane that has swept wings, and yaw is induced, then it can happen. I've never heard of it being a danger to the flight of an airliner.
When a yaw does occur, it causes the plane to roll as though you were controlling the ailerons. A yaw can change the rate of airflow over each wing differently. Hence, the wing that encounters an increased airflow generates more lift. The wing with a lower airflow produces less lift. Thus, a roll occurs.
And yes, the news of this event is WAY overhyped. 
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The are some phrases in English that use "Dutch" in a derogatory manner, e.g. "Double Dutch" meaning "nonsense". I expect that "Dutch Roll" is more of the same - using a yaw to initiate a roll being just the bass-ackward kind of thing that a Dutchman would do.
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