Plane vs Fence post
08-04-2006, 09:15 PM
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Plane vs Fence post
A buddy of mine deadsticked (stuck?) his plane straight into a fence,it wouldn't glide with a tailwind and dropped like a rock,made me sick to see it.
Scattered debris for 50 feet
Scattered debris for 50 feet
08-11-2006, 12:36 PM
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RE: Plane vs Fence post
We had a member take out a fence post with a 33% Pitts. Came in for a landing and hit the post square. It looked like the entire bottom of the plane was ripped out from the firewall back past the trailing edge of the wing... Turned out that the LG plate was the only thing that came off. Oh yeah, and that Tri-blade $140 dollar gold plated Mejilik prop turned into a 2 blade really quick!
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08-11-2006, 03:25 PM
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RE: Plane vs Fence post
I sheared the port wing off of my 60 sized trainer on a pylon pole. I was using the pole to 'line up' my runway approach and thought I was 'well past' it when I dropped down for my landing. To my surprise, the pole moved closer to me than my plane was! And it happened so fast too! Not only that, I sheared off the plyon pole too. So much for perspective!
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RE: Plane vs Fence post
A few years back was flying a Fletcher FU24 Ag plane model out on my grandparents farm in New Zealand as was testing out a dusting system Id devised, Done all ground tests everything was normal and working, taxied round to take off, the airstrip was fairly short so was a full power take off...all was going great till a sidewind blew across lifted the right wing up and kind of forced the plane down, which unfortunately the undercarriage met with a fence wire and came to a sudden stop, luckily wasnt too much damage and was out again a couple of weeks later, had alot of fun with that plane!
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RE: Plane vs Fence post
I've got a friend (really it's not me) that flew a stick at full tilt into a telephone pole dead center. The spinner and the crank are still in the pole at about 20 ft off the ground.
11-12-2006, 11:45 PM
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RE: Plane vs Fence post
ORIGINAL: iahawkflyer
I've got a friend (really it's not me) that flew a stick at full tilt into a telephone pole dead center. The spinner and the crank are still in the pole at about 20 ft off the ground.
I've got a friend (really it's not me) that flew a stick at full tilt into a telephone pole dead center. The spinner and the crank are still in the pole at about 20 ft off the ground.
