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** [[Subverted Trope|Hilariously subverted]] in "The Golden Goose" when Launchpad attempts to crash on purpose, [[Springtime for Hitler|only to land perfectly]] - Launchpad may crash all the time, but he's so good at wrecking his planes that he's an expert at crashing ''safely''.
** [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in one episode where a Scrooge orders Launchpad to pilot a sabotaged blimp that's about to crash on its own. With Launchpad at the control, they still crash, but everybody survives with minor injuries.
** By the time of ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', he seemed to have improved (or forced himself to get better because they only had one plane, as opposed to ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''' never ending supply). He'd crash occasionally, but that was usually due to getting shot down. There were still a lot of jokes and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to his poor landing skills, but on that show it had become more of an [[Informed Ability|Informed Inability]]. Although, in one episode where Lauchpad doesn't appear, Darkwing crashes his craft himself and then comments, "Launchpad would have been proud."
** Received [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] at least twice on ''[[Gargoyles]]'', with the drivers of crashed helicopters musing, "Any landing you can walk away from..."
* In the ''[[DuckTales (2017)]]'' version of DuckTales, Launchpad doesn't even grasp the idea of flying a plane or driving a train ''without'' crashing it.
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