‘That’s a Paper Airplane’: Pilot Shows Off His Tiny Two-Seater ‘Long EZ’
Peter Rapine Published 04/02/2023
Flyfastplanes, a hobbyist plane account on TikTok with 60,000 followers, makes three things clear in his bio: 1) they like to teach folks about planes; 2) they think planes with engines in the back are cool; and 3) their views are their own.
“You can be told what something is, but I think the information that you really wanna know is, ‘what can it do?,'” says FastFlyPLanes (FFP), as he walks up to a 15-foot-long two-seater plane leaning on its nose. The plane is a Long EZ and is one of the smallest on the market.
“This particular airplane needs to be stored with the nose wheel up” FFP explains, picking up the plane with both hands and pressing a button to release a hidden front wheel. “There’s a big engine out back and it’s supposed to have at least 150 pounds of pilot up front. If you don’t have that, the plane will tip backward.”
On today’s flight, FFP is flying from Fort Wayne Indiana to Orlando, Florida. “This particular airplane is an absolute handful in a cloud,” FFP says while filming cumulonimbus clouds above Florida. “This plane covered a thousand nautical miles and did it faster than American Airlines, gate-to-gate,” FFP said once he landed in Orlando. “Many people will call it weird, I simply call it a LONG EZ.”
“You can be told what something is, but I think the information that you really wanna know is, ‘what can it do?,'” says FastFlyPLanes (FFP), as he walks up to a 15-foot-long two-seater plane leaning on its nose. The plane is a Long EZ and is one of the smallest on the market.
“This particular airplane needs to be stored with the nose wheel up” FFP explains, picking up the plane with both hands and pressing a button to release a hidden front wheel. “There’s a big engine out back and it’s supposed to have at least 150 pounds of pilot up front. If you don’t have that, the plane will tip backward.”
On today’s flight, FFP is flying from Fort Wayne Indiana to Orlando, Florida. “This particular airplane is an absolute handful in a cloud,” FFP says while filming cumulonimbus clouds above Florida. “This plane covered a thousand nautical miles and did it faster than American Airlines, gate-to-gate,” FFP said once he landed in Orlando. “Many people will call it weird, I simply call it a LONG EZ.”
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