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I fly what it drags.... It is a Tow plane for gliders :) some clubs (our included) have that sign near any roadway which crosses under its landing path

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It means danger of low-flying planes. I'm guessing this is located on a road next to an airport runway.

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Simple: "Any car with oversized, stupid crap attached to its antenna is in danger of having said antenna snap in high winds."

Tow plane for gliders...harumph.

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Does it mean danger of low-flying planes? I'm guessing this is located on a road next to an airport runway.

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OTOH, it could also mean, "comments that go through twice are as annoying as having an airplane hit your brand new car." Sorry. ;-)

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I guess my brain is in the toilet. I thought it was "Beware Falling Blue Ice"

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"Beware of urinating airplanes"

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This could be in gibralter spain where the main
road crosses the airpoet runway

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"Warning: Tetherkrieg ahead"

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i think it might be for planes and training planes that perform rester hook (speeling) landings maybe,

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Probably that there is crop dusting in the area. (Crop dusting is spraying chemicals on to crops from an airplane). Crop dusting planes frequent fly very low, sometimes to the point of brushing their wheels long the top of the crop.

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It's a sign to warn of tow ropes -- associated with towing gliders into the air as I believe the first poster wrote .....

The plane in question is a Piper Pawnee (common crop duster and now a tow plane). I've dragged a rope through the side window of a van before towing 200 feet of line with a 180 super cub and not paying attention to the threshold. So yeah .. it happens.

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It is probably a warning for an airplane that tows ads. They have many of them going up and down the Jersey Shore. And they do not land and take off to pick up the large banner, instead they make a low pass with a hook and pick it up. I guess the field they do it on is a bit to close to a street in this picture.

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Beware of remote controlled airplanes?

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It means "If you park your car here, we will beat the crap out of it with a ball-and-chain attached to our airplane."

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I fly hang gliders, and that is a sign to warn about the "tug" and the 50 yards tow rope dragging from the tail with a metal hook ring at the end of the rope that could hit your car when the airplane is passing at low altitude in its final landing approach. The sign could be actually placed in the landing field near the trees, where some people park their cars... thats a normal thing at the flight parks.

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"Beware Falling Blue Ice"?

I guess you dont need to be living in Iraq to be hit by an ICY BM....

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You say it just means “DANGER: Dangling cables. Landing path for tow-planes”?!

Nah. Too outlandish. How about:
“DANGER: Cars make poor advertising banners.”
Or, maybe:
“DANGER: Unattended cars at risk of being stolen by pirate aircraft in this area.”
“DANGER: Area frequented by thoughtless pilots. Beware of falling trash."
“DANGER: Do NOT use small planes to haul cars.”

My favorite was Willy’s “oversized, stupid crap” definition. That had me chuckling. Nice touch, Willy!

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It looks like a sign on an old logging road that leads to Lake Pillsbury in Northern California. The logging road actually CROSSES a dirt runway that serves small planes carrying visitors to Lake Pillsbury and its resorts.

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