While sprints and effective wrist flicks are important to one Missouri State University club sport, the comradery it creates is priceless. The Missouri State’s men’s and women’s ultimate frisbee clubs
all i saw was the blur of a wing go over my head. the wing missed us by a few feet and the prop was no more than a couple feet to the side of me. kohler, still filming, watches in horror as the plane crashes only steps away in a grassy field. dad had the camera. i had the camcorder. we both kind of ditched those halfway to the plane, just kind of tossed them onto the ground. kohler and his father are fearful the plane will erupt into flames. unsure of what they ll find, the two raced toward the downed aircraft. at first i couldn t tell how many people were in there. by the time we got to the plane, the pilot was already climbing out and trying to get the doors open. but with the way the plane was situated, all the doors were kind of blocked closed. since airport police are nearby and witness the accident, the emergency response is swift. within minutes, fire brigades and the anchorage police department arrive on the scene. by the time the first police officer actually got
hug loud. live loud. polident. number 1 dentist recommended. it s very fun to be able to say that a plane nearly took my head off. 21-year-old college student dustin kohler may be laughing because no emotion can neatly describe that freakish day when his love for airplanes nearly cost him his life. holy crap. a student of aerospace engineering, kohler has a keen interest in aviation. in june 2009, he and his father set out to film takeoffs and landings of seaplanes, a gift for kohler s grandfather who shares his great appreciation for small planes. the two head out to lake hood near anchorage, alaska. a picturesque water runway they
the water, it caused it to pivot enough that it came straight at us. when he first started pivoting toward us, i thought he was maybe trying to show off for the camera. as the plane continues to approach, now alarmingly close to the water s edge, kohler tries to adjust his camera. i didn t realize anything was going wrong for quite some time, until the point where i suddenly zoomed out and the plane was still taking up the entire shot. the pilot attempts to regain control of the airplane. so he had to pull up or bite the bank. he chose to pull up and didn t have enough speed. he tried to make it, hoping that he could get a little bit of lift, but he didn t have enough lift so basically stalled right over our heads. at that point, i just start diving. while we were diving he was actually falling straight on top of us. everything goes blank after that. the plane whizzes past kohler s head, taking out part of the security fence. father and son dive to the ground. holy crap.
visit at least twice a week. i chose the spot we were standing in because that s normally where you can get some of the best shots. we were about ten feet off the water, above the canal. there s a little fence that keeps you from going closer, and we were standing right on the fence line. on the third day testing out his brand new video camera, kohler spots a small aircraft on the other side of the lake taxiing across the water. so we were jogging up to catch up. we had to get around the trees so we could get a good shot of the plane taking off. the single engine prop plane ready for flight begins to build speed. everything was normal, started revving up the engine. the plane started taking off, started coming into its turn. it did point at us for a while, but that s normal. suddenly, a gust of wind momentarily lifts the plane from the water, knocking it off course. the plane where the wind gust hit, it actually lifted out of the water, the wrong float came out of the wat