Bouncing it off

Forrest Byron was remembering meeting an old man once... up in Northern Arizona somewhere... hell if he can remember where exactly ... but the old man used to restore Taylor Crafts.... see the way Forrest figures the old day flyers are pretty much gone....  he sort of felt.. he was holding on to the very tail end of that comet tail  himself.

Anyway......... the old man told him about bouncing off.... if he were going out of a short strip and had fear of running out of runway .. they would build a mound... maybe like the equivalent to  today's speed bump in an apartment complex parking lot, but  near the end of the runway.. that way if the plane would not get air born by that point.... powering along  he would plow into the bump and the spring loaded landing gear would bounce them up into ground effect... then you could drop the nose and accelerate in ground effect off the end of the runway over who knows what? and ... gain flying speed and then climb out....an interesting maneuver  no doubt ... Byron some how doubts it is  being taught in today's flight schools.
                                   Bouncing it off.
                                           Forrest Byron