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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 2/20/2003 2:40:23 AM   
Airshark


 

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From: Russellville, AL,
Status: offline 		I just thought of a funny crash storie my brother in law had and thought we might get some funny stories going...

1991...In a field...high grass and mud...a home made runway barely able to take off and land on it....no club just four of us teaching ourselfs to fly....no one or anything around for us to crash into but our own stuff.... my brother in law Danny had been flying about two months....has bad eye sight any way....and was flying a 30 inch wingspan .25 Little stick plane painted red and white and black with German cross on the tail, three control surfaces, (no ailerons) and had actually gotten pretty good on the sticks with it. So he invites his friend from work to come and watch him fly it... he brings his wife...also Dannys wife comes with them to watch also...he gets it up ...no problem....flies some circuits....does some tricks....loops....stall turns.......no rolls tho....rudder only is to trickey for him....everyone is ooooooing...aahhhhhing.....commenting him on his flying....hes soaking it all up.....smiling like a oppssum.... he turns toward himself....sun is behind the plane and in his eyes....he loses sight of it for a few secs......squints finds it again....its comming directly at them...there standing two feet behind his friends brand new 1991 pickup truck...two weeks old....his wife and friends wife are sitting on the tail gate...plane gets closer and he notices its inverted!!!! He's never flew inverted in his life before! Especialy with a rudder only plane! How it got that way he doesnt know?? What to do now ???? He dont know?? He freezes....planes comming at them....now 10 feet high and desending like it wants to land in the bed of the truck!!!! His friends wife jumps up starts screeaming!! Climbs over the cab of the new truck onto the hood!!! She starts stomping her feet on the hood yelling...OH No!! OH...NO!! Leaving big dents in the hood!! Dannys wife now is standing in the bed of the truck running in small circles in the bed screamming....she wants to get out but doesnt know how to do it in her panic...(*note...this all happened simontainiously!!) Finely she jumps over the side and runs around the truck ducking behind the front bumper... his friend is glancing back and forth between his wife destroying his truck hood and the plane threatning his life...still with a false smile on his face thats asking Danny...you've got control?? dont you????!!??? Danny is smiling the same false smile.....that says.....I dont know what to do???? the plane is now 15 or 20 feet out.... the friend breaks away from Dannys side dives beside the truck...covers his head.......Danny finely knows he has to do something.....instinks takes over, he pulls back on the elevator to make it go up!!! O f course inverted it dives stright down!! Danny steps aside.... the plane hits the ground 6 inches behind the back bumper...burys the spinner up in the mud.... engine stops...plane is completly vertical...standing on its nose....sets there for a few seconds.... then gently leans over agianst the bumper...just like you set it there with your hand....he picks it up.....no damage!!! None at all....even the prop is still in one piece! Cleans off the mud and starts prepairing it for another flight!! Acting like he had total control! His friends hood isnt so lucky tho!! Friend and wife have a good ol argument while Danny quitely refuels....its true....sometimes its better to be lucky than good!!! any one else got anything funny to share??

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 2/20/2003 3:38:42 PM   
SigKavalier


 

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From: Water Valley, MS, USA
Status: offline 		I dunno the couple of times I've flown at the local field everyone seems to think I'm pretty funny. Mainly because I talk to myself while I fly saying things like "WHOA!" and "Oooohhh" lol. Probably the only funny thing was when I was little. I forget what plane it was, but at the original Oxford flying site which was basically a road complete with power lines. My dad was flying some kind of mid wing plane around. Anyway everything was going fine until he flew into the power lines due to a little bad depth perception as the one's he flew into were 90 degrees to where we were. So the plane hits a cable, flips over, and then slides down two cable for about 20-30 feet. Then I don't know if my dad gave it down elevator or what it jumped up off the wires, and continued to fly. After he landed it we checked it out, and it was unhurt. Except the solid yellow wing now had 2 perfectly space, and aligned black marks across them lol.
It looked like they had been painted on approx 6" from each wing tip.


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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/14/2003 2:42:55 AM   
Chris-B-chips



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From: Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Status: offline 		at a comp someone was testing a biplane out to see how it performes. flying along he comes into a snap a little to fast and the left wings fell off. the wings float gently to the ground. the plane comes out wobling all over and eventuly levles itself knife edge. the guy flying kept the model level at knife edge. the side that still had wings on acted as a pendulem keeping the plane level. he does a few circuits knife edge and then decides to land it.

the plane landed inverted with minimal damage.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/15/2003 12:43:20 PM   
Ruralflyer



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Status: offline 		Well, this wasn't really a plane, I considered it a toy that my parents got me for Christmas. It was a Cox easyflyer and it was a piece of **** with only 1 channel. Engine and up elevator took it up to altitude while you operated rudder control. Engine ran out of fuel and you gilded down, (in theory!! ). One day decided to try new engine, old one puttering out very bad so we kept fixing the elevator higher, and higher, and higher just to fly level with this thing. Well, new engine went on, power difference between new and old engines was about 400 % i think. Didn't even think to adjust the fixed elevator. Start engine, starts on first try and runs true. We both stare at each other in disbelif we were so used to the old crummy one. My father grabs plane and tosses it with me at the controls of my two button (yes buttons) tx,,, ack! Anyway, it's obvious that something is wrong when it flys vertical 30 feet and then stalls, falling 30 feet, pulling out and then repeating the process. No power control, no elevator control, just left and right. I frantically pushed buttons and the porpoising demon obeyed, yet it still was pulling out inches above ground and then rocketing up to 30 feet again. At one of those peaks it barely clears a powerline, falling down the other side again. I guide it towards higher land, hoping that it will somehow land at full power by pulling out above higher land and nicking the ground at its trough. Yet I was expecting the worst. But, ground effect keeps it from ever touching the ground. It flys away from me over the hill. Lost, It dissapears below the horizon of the hill. I put down the cruddy button Tx, knowing that it had finally met the Earth. But, a full 1.5 seconds later, it rises vertically far behind the hill, faster, but then sloows down. It mocks me, hovering a what had to be 50 ft. high. Unassited, it executes a perfect hammerhead out of its brief hover, points earthward, and.........................

Nevertheless, now I have two .049 engines that won't run.
My parents now never get me anything for Christmas without asking me what I want and what I don't want!

Never really considered that toy a plane anyway.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/17/2003 8:11:56 PM   
AQ500



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Status: offline 		I think the funniest crash I ever saw happened to a helicopter. It was at a fly-in and a guy somewhat new to choppers was putting on a demonstration. He went into a hover right over the runway and rolled inverted. He had his hover mix selected and the engine on the chopper went to idle. He was unable to recover and the shopper fell onto te runway. As it hit the engine powered up and the chopper started thrashing itself to death. Parts were going everywhere. The pilot then decided to take action an save whatever he had left. He went over and stuck his leg into the tumbling mess to stop it. He was very brave. He finally got it stopped and killed the engine. The mess left by that chopper made it look like a tornado had been through the area.

Another interesting crash happened at another fly-in. On take off a giant scale plane veered off the runway and chopped a 1/4 scale extra in half right behind the wing. The funny thing is that the motor on the extra continued to run. So there was a 1/4 scale Extra on the runway chopped in half with it's motor running.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/20/2003 1:36:36 AM   
electricfan



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From: Brentwood, TN, USA
Status: offline 		5 stories and 4 planes :

1. mini piper was blown into the ground at about 20 mph and it snapped the wing and the tail in half. i fixed it with epoxy and it worked like new.
2. champion from hobby lobby had a defective receiver in it. i was landing and it got interfered-flipped upside down and pulled up (thats down when ur inverted). bye bye $100 arf
3. direct 280 from HL was unable to recover from inverted flight (not enough power) and i broke the nose off. guess what happened 3 minutes after the glue dried... I DID THE SAME THING!!! its not bad, just a waste of time and glue
4. this might not qualify as a "crash", but i went off to drive my rc car and my evil friend took my direct 280 and landed it among a bunch of nesting geese. they attacked it and took some bites, but no real damage
5 i was flying my firebird in 30 mph winds. It barely took it and some crashes, but i was done with no damage. i was walking to my car and the wind blew and broke the wing in half

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/20/2003 3:37:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Airshark,
"your friend?"

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/20/2003 7:37:27 PM   
Canard flyer



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From: Wolf Point, MT, USA
Status: offline 		I didn't see this happen but I heard about it.

A friend of mine was training someone using a buddy box. The trainee had quite a few hours but wasn't ready for solo yet. As he was flying the plane suddenly went inverted and started diving toward the ground. There was then the typical "do you have it?", "no, I thought you did" as the plane headed for a small bush on the other side of a hill.
After the plane disappeared behind the hill the student and instructor decided they might as well go retrieve the pieces.
What was funny about this is as they crossed the hill, they realized the bush was actually a full grown tree in a big hole in the hill. The plane had flown inverted into the hole to the point that the hole was the same width as the plane. The plane was resting upside down with its wings set against the sides of the hole and the spinner of the prop touching the tree (which stopped the prop). The only damage to the plane was scrapes on the tip of the wings and a quick check of the spinner and prop.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/20/2003 8:52:46 PM   
Baitshack



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Status: offline 		Not a crash but this is as good a place as any… Years ago, a radio let go while a guy in our club was flying. He lost all control and the plane buzzed out of sight, more or less straight and level. He turned off his radio and sat down at a table to smoke a cigarette.

Somewhere between 3-5 minutes later we start hearing the buzz of an engine, look up, and the little plane is headed back our way. He turns on his radio, the plane responds, and he brings it in for a landing.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/20/2003 11:19:21 PM   
AQ500



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Status: offline 		The loss of radio reminded me of another one. I was at a full-scale airshow putting on a demo with others. Part of the demo was a combat session with Wonders. One in particular was launched and the pilot had no control of it. The plane did a big circle and crashed back close to the runway very close to the other pilots. The damage was not bad. It turns out the the switch was toggled during the hand toss.

The amazing thing is that there were full scale planes all over the place making expensive targets as well as many people and the plane missed them all.

Then at another fly-in, an RC skydiver got hung up below the large mothership. The pilot bumped the elevator trying to knock him free. Instead he knocked free the battery which fell through the bomb-bay door. The plane flew into a mature wheat field with little damage.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/21/2003 5:44:31 PM   
SDR-Hammer


 

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Status: offline 		Baitshack, Thats a funny story.

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/24/2003 8:31:17 AM   
Jeff Barnes


 

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Status: offline 		Not really a crash--

First time solo with wife there to show all my skills.
Kadet lt 40, beautiful take off and flying fine.
A Beagle dog wanders up to the field with one of those electronic
collars on its neck and every time I have to turn the Kadet the poor little dog goes off like someone is hurting it, well I am the
only person flying and it is obvious that when I input any control
movements it coinsides with the dogs yelps.
The wife and two other persons present tell me what I already know but the wife tells me to turn it off !!!
I have a dog and wouldn't do anything to intentionally hurt it,
but I have to make an emergency landing, like right-now.
Luck was with me as I've never had a quicker, on the mark,
no wasted anything landing ever.
When all was calm the folks at the field found a knife and cut the collar off the Beagle as the owner drove up inquiring if we had seen a lost dog, we explained what had happened and why
his collar was cut off. ( Four adults in a panic couldn't figure out how to remove it. )

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/24/2003 9:10:29 AM   
3d type


 

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Status: offline 		A FEW WEEKS AGO AN INSTRUCTOR AT OUR CLUB WAS TEACHING A STUDENT ON THE STUDENTS TRAINER , ON TAKE OFF THE INSTRUCTOR LOSES SIGHT OF THE PLANE IN THE SUN AND THE PLANE ENDS UP OUT OF RANGE BY THE TIME HE FINDS IT AGAIN, THE PLANE ENDS UP IN THE OCEAN THATS ABOUT A QUARTER MILE FROM THE FIELD. THE STUDENT WAS BUMMED TO HAVE LOST HIS NEW TRAINER LIKE THAT . BUT WOULD YOU BELIEVE A BOATER SAW THE PLANE AND RETRIEVED IT OUT OF THE WATER , HAPPENED TO BE IN THE HOBBY SO HE RAN THE ENGINE WHEN HE GOT HOME, AND DRIED OFF THE RADIO EQUIPMENT AND BROUGHT THE PLANE BACK A FEW DAYS LATER .

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Ok...Lets hear some funny crash stories... - 5/28/2003 10:39:54 PM   
bbbair


 

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From: Belleville, ON, CANADA
Status: offline 		A Crash?; No but it was an exciting takeoff.

My third flight with a new AC, it was a 40 size Eindecker (German WW1 fighter) the previous flights had been uneventful as this little plane flew true to scale (slow). With the high lift wing it doesn’t take much to take off, but control at slow speeds is quite another thing so I have to lift the tail and pick up speed on the main gear (tail dragger).

I wasn’t expecting any problems as I taxied down the runway at half throttle traveling from East to West (any more power and the plane would be doing ground spins), but today I wasn’t as quick as I should have been to lift the tail.

The Plane suddenly jumped into the air to about 20’, as it didn’t have enough airspeed it promptly stalled, dropping the left wing.
Which I tried to correct with Right aileron, which increased the stall left. So I went to full throttle, which caused a torque roll (left).

The plane has now dropped from 20’ to 10’, roars over three people on the flight line, six more people in the Pits and clears the transmitter impound by a mere 3’. As I continued to wrestle for control I have turned 360 degrees, the Airspeed finally increased. So that the control surfaces are once again effective and I proceed down the runway at 50’ with no problems at all…

Remember; Airspeed is life, Altitude is insurance, if you don’t have either you’d better be lucky.

Bruce

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