Pour decourager les autres seems more applicable here.
Every pilot knows
That the secret of survival
Is don’t crash your plane on purpose
You stupid Youtube geek…
I think Voltaire himself would’ve seen this as an opportunity to encourage those planning similarly asinine stunts to change their minds.
It’s always discouragement implied by that phrase. The point of the “joke” in the original usage was the ironic use of “encourage” about a deterrent as extreme as execution.
Actually I heard on a video of a pilot describing the incident that this was basically a junk plane he upgraded with the bare minimum required to fly it. The plane could not be insured iirc because it was considered a total loss even before the accident.
Steve Lehto has a good overview(14 min).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNERrZ4yZo8
Something posters here seemed to have missed:
Jacob’s lawyer, Keri Curtis Axel, told Ars, “Trevor is taking full responsibility for his mistake in judgment; he hopes to move past it and to use his status as a world-class action sports athlete, entrepreneur, and influencer to be a source for good in society.”
At the very least the judge should force him to sit on the Group W bench.
Why did he have a fire extinguisher strapped to his leg? I’ve never understood that bit.
I think he expected to be able to land fairly close to the plane, and would need the fire extinguisher to quickly put out any fires resulting from the crash. Not because he was worried about causing any sort of wildfire disaster or anything, but just to make sure is GoPro videos wouldn’t get destroyed by fire.
Ah! I thought maybe as a sneaky water bottle or something. I guess we can just chalk the gun up to dumb bravado.
How easy would it be to cut up an airplane into small enough pieces to discard in multiple dumpsters? Sounds like a huge pita, if true.
If he were smart he’d find those shady junkyards that take the copper wiring and catalytic converters no questions asked and just give the plane pieces to them.
I’m sure it would be harder than cutting up a huge pita.
The Taylorcraft is fabric-covered wood construction, like the very earliest planes.
Still harder to cut up than a soft flatbread.
I’m guessing the wings are fabric-covered wooden frames, but the fuselage is fabric-covered steel tubing.
I wonder if old plane lovers feel the same way I do when I see some asshole on stage smash his guitar.
From what I saw in the comments of various YT videos about the incident, very much so.
Yes, you’re right. Sorry for the unintentional misinformation.
I was first drawn to this story because I’ve flown in a Taylorcraft a few times. A friend of mine in college, forty years ago, owned one.