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Wings!?! What Wings!?!? - 10/14/2012 7:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		 Just thought I'd share a story of one of my early R/C airplane adventures... I had purchased a glow powered trainer plane form a guy off of craigslist for $40 bucks. It came with everything but a radio; Engine and all! It looked like it had never been flown and I was really excited about it. I noticed that there were pegs protruding from the fuselage as to secure the 63 inch wing to the plane. I hadn't considered that there might be 'special' rubberbands to use in this senario so I just grabbed any four rubberbands I had laying around the house. My father, my girlfriend and I went to a desert area near my house ( as I reside in southern AZ) to fly the plane. Needless to say, the rubberbands didn't hold and at the bottom end of a semi aerobatic loop, the wing completely disengaged from the plane and my dad and girlfriend were forced to sprint in opposing directions to avoid being blended by the accelerating propeller-driven spear. Ahhh, the lessons we learn

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RE: Wings!?! What Wings!?!? - 10/14/2012 4:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have had that happen even with the proper rubber bands.

Plenty of desert around Tucson. Really nice model fields too.


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RE: Wings!?! What Wings!?!? - 10/14/2012 11:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had an experience with my wings coming off once.     

At our field we had a  small tree that was not right on the glide path, but a little off to the right side of the runway about 100 feet of the end of the runway.     It started out as a twig and had grown to about  15 feet tall.   I think it was either a  Mesquite or Mulberry tree.   

It was mid fall and I was flying a plane  much like the one in my avator.    I was going to come in low and touch down at  the end of the paved run way  and be able to stop where I was standing which was about mid way of the run way.

As I made the cross wind turn I was about  10 feet high and getting ready to make the final down wind turn on to final approach when all of a sudden my plane  exploded in mid air.    It was the monokoted wings  exploding as the plane went through the tree,  and the  fuselage emerging from the other side as a torpedo.   

Since the field was on   Corp of Engineers property,  we couldn't cut the tree down without their permission.   The tree lasted a few more years before it  "disappeared".    I don't know if permission was granted or not, but it was gone.  

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RE: Wings!?! What Wings!?!? - 10/15/2012 1:03 AM   
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Status: online 		I miss your point Frank-what does your crash or tree at your flying field have to do with wings coming off in mid flight??

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RE: Wings!?! What Wings!?!? - 10/15/2012 1:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		LOL, it's all about the CoE and preserving trees.

I have ripped the wing saddle out of a Viper and Seeker Q500 plane at speed. From firsthand experience, the fuse does not fly well without the wing.


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RE: Wings!?! What Wings!?!? - 11/5/2012 9:44 PM   
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