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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/8/2007 5:44 AM   
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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/11/2007 2:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well two stories of half a horizontal stab coming off then landing the plane without incident. Had the exact same thing happen and my story pretty much follows the previous. Stab comes off flutters to the ground. Expecting the imamate crash to happen but it doesn’t happen, so I bring it around for one of my best greased landings. Then look like some wizard pilot to those the witnessed the incident.

I’m waiting for the guy to post the story I read here a couple years ago that lost radio contact with his plane and watched it off. He turns off the Tx then sits down to have a cigarette. A few minutes latter he hears the hum of a model engine, grabs the Tx, turns it back on and lands the plane.

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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/12/2007 5:53 AM   
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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/13/2007 1:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not really funny-ha-ha, but a couple weeks ago a friend at the field gave me a new Tx strap to replace the one I had misplaced. Put strap around neck, took off, and after flying for a bit remembered that I should maybe clip the strap to the Tx. Well, in doing so I managed to turn my transmitter off!![sm=confused_smile.gif]

Within the span of 2.5 seconds, realized my mistake, turned the Tx on again, and saved the plane just before it went behind the trees in a full-power dive. Landed with several years deducted from life span pf pilot.[:D]

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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/24/2007 2:34 PM   
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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/24/2007 7:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's one that I witnessed that is pretty funny.

One of the more experienced pilots in the club was helping another guy with a Top Flight giant P-51 ARF. It was a new plane, maybe it's first flight, I'm not sure. He takes off and flys around, everything is going great. Suddenly he loses radio, yells out, and starts "fishing". You know, when a plane is getting glitched badly, and you move the antenna around hopeing for a better link? Well, he gets the TX held up high and sideways. The plane is in a pretty steap dive, but suddenly responds. Since holding the TX up over his head and sideways saved the plane, the pilot then flew the plane around and landed it that way!

Once he landed, another guy who had also been watching walked up and said "what channel are you on?". Turns out, they did the test flight with out having the frequency pin! The other club member had arrived and gotten the pin while the new plane was in flight. When he turned on his TX before starting his engine, he heard the guys in the pilot box yell out, so he quickly turned off his TX! It was the quick thinking and turning off of the TX that saved the model, not the holding of the TX in such a funny way.

Needless to say, the story made the rounds in the club pretty quickly as a great lesson about making sure you have the pin, even if you are the only ones at the field at the time.

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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/24/2007 7:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have several "landed plane after a mid-air removed large portions of the airplane" stories from flying combat. Probably the most dramatic looking is this one. After getting hit, I was able to fly the plane around, make a couple of turns, pull the power and make a fairly normal landing. Had to hold a lot of aileron the whole time, but I think the wreckage still being attached added enough drag to keep the plane close to stable. Oh, and that plane doesn't have a rudder:



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RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes - 8/25/2007 5:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		A no-rudder landing with that sort of damage. Impressive!

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