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Ever know anyone who had this happen? - 5/6/2012 1:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is not a joke, nor even a funny fictional tale, but something that actually happened.

Do you know of anyone who likes to fly RC sailplanes for endurance? One day, one of the guys showed up with his sailplane, launched it, and then sat back in his lawn chair to watch it, or do something. It being a rather warm and comfy day, he dozed off. Soon, some of us began to filter in, and were setting up to go flying, and there was Charlie, fast asleep, transmitter in hand, while something was soaring overhead. After we'd been flying for a little while, what was circling in the thermals was still there. He still slept there. When he woke up, none of us had the heart to tell him that the sailplane he though he was controlling was in fact a buzzard that was circling, and that his sailplane was nowhere in sight.

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RE: Ever know anyone who had this happen? - 5/7/2012 2:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Now THAT'S funny. Really funny !!! Did you ever find the sailplane?

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RE: Ever know anyone who had this happen? - 5/7/2012 7:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		No, it was never found. I don't even think, and I plead the erosion of memory from the passage of years, that he even had anything in it to identify it as his, or a return address. I don't even know if he is in fact still alive. But I do remember that he really didn't like it brought up on occasions afterward. If memory serves me correctly, this was about the time of the Midwest ducted fan A4's that first came out, the ones with the little .049 engine power that you had to start outside the model, then carefully put it back in, running, and secure it with rubberbands, all the while trying to be careful to not lose a fingertip to the spinning fan. Remember those?

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RE: Ever know anyone who had this happen? - 5/13/2012 6:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		^ i had a COX Apache helicopter that had a .49 (i think) in it, you spun the the prop against a spring and let it go, then once its going you let it go and hope it didn't get stuck in a tree, on top of someone's house or like in my case, come back to cut your leg.

that thing turned into a dot in the sky with a full tank. so fun.

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RE: Ever know anyone who had this happen? - 6/3/2012 10:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		 When I was nine or ten years old, sitting in my bedroom/hanger/mancave, my brother daired me to start a 049 while holding it in my fingers. Can't belleve I still have all my digits. You'd think that thing would have quite after two walls and the carpet. Dad was less than impressed,brought it up ever time I saw him.

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RE: Ever know anyone who had this happen? - 6/4/2012 12:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love the idea of nodding off whilst you are flying your model. There's something so very gentle and summery about it.

Never heard of any one else doing it, mind.



A few months' back, my mate was flying his Miss 38. This is basically FF, though it does have a tiny rudder for emergencies. And a throttle cut-off valve; which doesn't work.


Anyway, the general idea is that you start the engine and throw the model. It then circles and climbs until the engine cuts. Then it wanders about for a bit, before reaching Mother Earth. You can guide it a bit, using the rudder.

By the time that the engine cuts, the model is a tiny speck. Tiny.



Well, the darned thing flew off, didn't it.



Dave said to me, "It was high, flying really steadily ... when I noticed that there was a vapour trail coming from it. About then, I realised that I had spent the last few minutes flying a 737.

To Malaga."



Meanwhile, Miss 38 had disappeared over the Southern horizon.

It turned up a few days later, in someone's garden... unharmed.

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