How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
09-17-2005, 03:01 AM
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How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
I fly in the desert. This means I have acres upon acres of land without any obstructions such as trees, hills and the like. Despite that I was still dumb enough to crash into the only erect object in the vicinity; the wind sock!
The attached picture does not show the extent of damage, which was minimal (sorry WOOPS), but it is an excellent picture of the wide-open space. Talk about a really stupid crash!
Reminds me of a picture I saw once of a guy who ran his car into a tree in the middle of the desert somewhere in Algeria.
The attached picture does not show the extent of damage, which was minimal (sorry WOOPS), but it is an excellent picture of the wide-open space. Talk about a really stupid crash!
Reminds me of a picture I saw once of a guy who ran his car into a tree in the middle of the desert somewhere in Algeria.
09-17-2005, 06:03 AM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
That is very sad. You should have done a better job on knocking that wind sock down!
Woops
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
Are Trees really Balsa Magnetic?
No, but trees are very posessive and want all the wood they can get. Oak trees
have been seen to grow as much at 20 feet in just a few seconds to snatch a plane from the air. Trees are also capable of moving along the ground. Trees that are well away from the flight path suddenly appear right in the middle of the landing approach. Even though this seems impossible, a parallel in nature is the "walking catfish" found in the Southeast of the USA. If a fish can walk, a tree can, too. Once a plane is snared, the tree exerts a tree-mendous effort to keep it, even to the point of the branches quickly growing around the trapped model. Climbers are knocked down by bark that mysteriously turns loose and slippery. Good, green-wood branches snap without warning. Some trees have even been known to push the plane higher than it was at first. The only sure way to get the plane back is cut the tree down. However, once the tree sees that this is the end, it sacrifices it's own life to prevent the cutter from obtaining the plane. Trees that are cut are known to fall completely contrary to the laws of physics, trapping the hapless plane under several hundred pounds of once living wood. No matter how the tree is cut, the plane will be squashed into kindling. The moral of this story is: If you don't want to lose your plane to a tree, fly in a desert.
Too bad the windsock was the only erect thing within miles, as you put it. The plane might have not suffered any damage at all if it crashed into yo......ah, nevermind.
Dr.1
No, but trees are very posessive and want all the wood they can get. Oak trees
have been seen to grow as much at 20 feet in just a few seconds to snatch a plane from the air. Trees are also capable of moving along the ground. Trees that are well away from the flight path suddenly appear right in the middle of the landing approach. Even though this seems impossible, a parallel in nature is the "walking catfish" found in the Southeast of the USA. If a fish can walk, a tree can, too. Once a plane is snared, the tree exerts a tree-mendous effort to keep it, even to the point of the branches quickly growing around the trapped model. Climbers are knocked down by bark that mysteriously turns loose and slippery. Good, green-wood branches snap without warning. Some trees have even been known to push the plane higher than it was at first. The only sure way to get the plane back is cut the tree down. However, once the tree sees that this is the end, it sacrifices it's own life to prevent the cutter from obtaining the plane. Trees that are cut are known to fall completely contrary to the laws of physics, trapping the hapless plane under several hundred pounds of once living wood. No matter how the tree is cut, the plane will be squashed into kindling. The moral of this story is: If you don't want to lose your plane to a tree, fly in a desert.
Too bad the windsock was the only erect thing within miles, as you put it. The plane might have not suffered any damage at all if it crashed into yo......ah, nevermind.
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09-17-2005, 11:20 AM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
LMAO!!! I feel your pain brother!
Somehow mine always find the ONLY tree at the field.... dang quick moving tree too!
I've also had run-ins with those pesky windsocks, but they don't move as fast as trees.
Glad the damage wasn't too bad.
Somehow mine always find the ONLY tree at the field.... dang quick moving tree too!
I've also had run-ins with those pesky windsocks, but they don't move as fast as trees.
Glad the damage wasn't too bad.
09-17-2005, 11:34 AM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
"who put that windsock there!" lol get r fixed up and you'll be ready to go knowing were the sock is! GL
09-17-2005, 09:11 PM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
ORIGINAL: Dr1Driver
Are Trees really Balsa Magnetic?
No, but trees are very posessive and want all the wood they can get. Oak trees
have been seen to grow as much at 20 feet in just a few seconds to snatch a plane from the air. Trees are also capable of moving along the ground. Trees that are well away from the flight path suddenly appear right in the middle of the landing approach. Even though this seems impossible, a parallel in nature is the "walking catfish" found in the Southeast of the USA. If a fish can walk, a tree can, too. Once a plane is snared, the tree exerts a tree-mendous effort to keep it, even to the point of the branches quickly growing around the trapped model. Climbers are knocked down by bark that mysteriously turns loose and slippery. Good, green-wood branches snap without warning. Some trees have even been known to push the plane higher than it was at first. The only sure way to get the plane back is cut the tree down. However, once the tree sees that this is the end, it sacrifices it's own life to prevent the cutter from obtaining the plane. Trees that are cut are known to fall completely contrary to the laws of physics, trapping the hapless plane under several hundred pounds of once living wood. No matter how the tree is cut, the plane will be squashed into kindling. The moral of this story is: If you don't want to lose your plane to a tree, fly in a desert.
Too bad the windsock was the only erect thing within miles, as you put it. The plane might have not suffered any damage at all if it crashed into yo......ah, nevermind.
Dr.1
Are Trees really Balsa Magnetic?
No, but trees are very posessive and want all the wood they can get. Oak trees
have been seen to grow as much at 20 feet in just a few seconds to snatch a plane from the air. Trees are also capable of moving along the ground. Trees that are well away from the flight path suddenly appear right in the middle of the landing approach. Even though this seems impossible, a parallel in nature is the "walking catfish" found in the Southeast of the USA. If a fish can walk, a tree can, too. Once a plane is snared, the tree exerts a tree-mendous effort to keep it, even to the point of the branches quickly growing around the trapped model. Climbers are knocked down by bark that mysteriously turns loose and slippery. Good, green-wood branches snap without warning. Some trees have even been known to push the plane higher than it was at first. The only sure way to get the plane back is cut the tree down. However, once the tree sees that this is the end, it sacrifices it's own life to prevent the cutter from obtaining the plane. Trees that are cut are known to fall completely contrary to the laws of physics, trapping the hapless plane under several hundred pounds of once living wood. No matter how the tree is cut, the plane will be squashed into kindling. The moral of this story is: If you don't want to lose your plane to a tree, fly in a desert.
Too bad the windsock was the only erect thing within miles, as you put it. The plane might have not suffered any damage at all if it crashed into yo......ah, nevermind.
Dr.1
I has a similar experience years ago. I was flying off a road in a new subdivision, there were no houses or any obstacles yet, except a lone pole....... you know the rest of the story.... aaaaargh! [&o]
Safe Flying!
10-02-2005, 01:02 PM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
no problem with trees or poles(yet) the only one i seem to hit is the ground(the easiest one to see to)
10-05-2005, 02:57 AM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
Hi to all readers!
I share the syndrome mentioned by many others but I cannot see a cure. (other than becoming more skillful)
I have found a way to feel better though.
It instigation of a wife who wants to travel (not my idea) we went to Greenland.
As far as I can tell it is a large island, four times area of UK and covered in permanent snow.
It has thousands of glaciers from the 2.5k Metres high uplands. The beaches can be very wide
and covered with trees. The trees can be 20yr old and only 2 inches high. The point of the story
is the pleasure to be gained by stamping on the relatives of the trees that have caused me
grief since I started building models.
John L.
10-05-2005, 04:46 PM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
It takes a very special type of pilot to hit a target that small!! I bet you couldn't do that again even if you tried!!
10-06-2005, 10:07 AM
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
i crashed a high powered turbine model into a tree at RAF hucknall recently. suprisingly the model won. the model is easily repairably with only 2 cracks in the fibreglass fus but i must have taken at least 2 branches off that tree. 1 kill to me
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RE: How does one crash into a tree in the desert?
I think you were lucky, if it were me, my plane would be caught at the top of the wind sock. Bad enough trying to get a plane from the top of a tree, but from the top of a windsock... That would call for a thread for suggestions on how to get it down (I still like the shotgun technique, as long as it isn't my plane).
At least it isn't hard to find your plane, no grass, trees, corn fields, etc.. Just mentioning a deadstick into a cornfield gives me chills.
At least it isn't hard to find your plane, no grass, trees, corn fields, etc.. Just mentioning a deadstick into a cornfield gives me chills.
