Dick T.

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Having just completed final preparations on my Sig Sukhoi for it's maiden flight the next day, I decided to move it into the living room while cleaning up the shop. I prepped my whole walking path from the shop through the front door to the middle of the living room, moving any obstacle out of the way.

I next picked up the Sukhoi and carefully negotiated the path and through the door only to trip on the edge of the couch and smash the aft part of the fuselage between my Budda belly and the couch arm.

It happened so quickly I couldn't comprehend what had happened, then I burst into bizzare laughter!!! Three months of loving preparation destroyed in 3 seconds. I took photos, then went to bed.

Called Sig the next morning to inquire about parts. Between their, and my, howls of laughter, we concluded a fuse kit with tail feathers would do the job. Had it sent to the LHS. To Sig's credit they sent it FedEx second day with an invoice for half the quoted price and the LHS made a little profit too. They had written on the invoice, "best laugh we have had so we want to help out".

Best thing about it is I fell so quickly there was no time to react so there was no attempt to "save" the plane. After relating the incident to many of my customers, I received a lot of good, fun pokes. But some related personal or friend's stories of serious injuries trying to keep the bird from damage.

Airplane was reassembled and has many perfect flights on it.

OzDave

I bet that laughter was bizarre! Tinged with a little lunacy and a hint of hysterics =P I would be mortified

Bad luck!

Dazzler

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Man, thats a nice airplane. I would have been pissed for awhile, that looks like alot of work. Good luck Daz...

gshepherd83

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I wish I had your restraint!! There probably would have been a few more broken things in the house that day! :angry:

PERRY-RCU

Bad luck man, but

thats not supposed to be a lot of work, thats an ARF! :stupid:
just a lot of cash


Good luck while flying it!

stomper

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WOW !

bud01234

Jeesh-

I might've gone to bed, but would've stood up all night.

Talk about hangar rash!
Glad you got it back together and can laugh about it.

cublover

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Well,,,looks like someone has worse luck than me...LOL

John B

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I'd a shot myself....great attitude!!!! This hbby is for the fun.
John

=XGC= OzZ

That stinks.

Extra_flya

I've had several close calls like this. Sorry it happened to such a good plane.

Jake

foxbat-RCU

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I had a H9 edge go in a few months ago I keep it around to relieve some stress a few punches to the wing a kick etc...
sorry about the plane it looked nice.

MHawker

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Hey Dick T,

What size Suk was/is that? I'm looking for my next plane (hopefully a gasser) and your Suk looks about the size I'd like. I've heard 80" or greater for a gasser.

Thanks,

Mike

Dick T.

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The Sukhoi is the Sig ARF. It's WS is 76" or 78".

The Sukhoi lives on with another flyer right now, sold it so I could get on with another project (H9 1/3 Extra 330L).

I have received numerous email notes from folks with their own story to tell, some quite funny, others sad.

Hang in this hobby long enough and we all will have a humbling experience.

warbird_1

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close ,close
i was carrying my center section of my ziroi p-38 up the sidewalk and didn't see my field/tool box in front of me. as i tripped over it i lost my balance and wound up falling onto the box and smashing the bottem of the fuse with my body weight against the top edge of the box awwww !!!!!! eeee!!!! %@#%$ now i WAS pissed !

blade_swinger

LOLOL thats great fox i cant stop laughing at the thought of that
-dan