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HANGER RASH - 4/2/2008 8:46:15 AM

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Whats the dumbest way that you have damaged a plane thats not flying related?

I just finished building my 120 ultimate and picked it up to take it outside when I put the rudder into the ceiling fan!

RE: HANGER RASH - 4/2/2008 12:40:52 PM

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i had a goldberg jungmiester that i was leaving the house with and tripped over the welcome mat and land on top of the plane. it was irrepairably damaged. (banging my head on the wall now that i have told everyone)

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/2/2008 2:59:20 PM

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Sorry for laughing but its got to look funny, I am sure if we share these stories we will feel beter about our own dumb and expensive mistakes.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/2/2008 3:07:19 PM

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while test running my new 1/4 scale quickie in the front yard, the canopy blew off and landed on the driveway....I turned to go get it just as my wife pulled in and ran it over. It was 8 years before I finally made a replacement and flew the plane.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/2/2008 7:09:31 PM

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Not to me but a buddy always brought his planes to the field in the back of his truck (no topper). The wings were always off & strapped down. He got the bright idea to put his 2 planes together at home & bring them to the field that way. He said, "I thought I would have more time to fly". He usually is the first one there. This time we were ALL there before him. Just as he started to slow down to turn into the airfield, his 4* 60 did a beautiful roll & half of a loop, yeah, half a loop out of the back of the truck. It did 2 cartwheels & 1 flip when it hit the pavement.. Destroyed it !!! He slowed down & backed up & looked at the plane & hollered" here's the plane I am giving you". He went directly home, we had to go pick up the pieces. He called later & said he left because he knew that we would not stop laughing for an hour. I told him, no, it was only 45 minutes.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/3/2008 1:17:04 AM

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ORIGINAL: knighttwister

i had a goldberg jungmiester that i was leaving the house with and tripped over the welcome mat and land on top of the plane. it was irrepairably damaged. (banging my head on the wall now that i have told everyone)

Dont worry, I did the same thing. Now this was back when I was into planes kinda got outta planes and into the cars/trucks. BUt I didnt trip over the welocme matt though. Tripped over a twig in the front yard. The right wing went into the ground first, then as the wing crushed in to little pieces the rest of the plane decided to also hit and crumble. I was so mad and my dad was laughing at me. I felt soooo bad, but things happen we live and learn. That never happened again.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/3/2008 1:49:21 AM

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I think my most brilliant moment was when I picked up my dad's brand new .46 powered giles 202, and was holding it up by the prop and spinner.
I was kidding pop about flying 3D, and was mimicking it in a hovering torque roll, by spinning the plane around..

Well...apparently pop hadnt tightened down the prop nut...and you guessed it.

It let go, and went crashing onto the ground rudder first.

Needless to say I spent the afternoon building a new rudder and recovering it.

That was probably my biggest "DUH" moment.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/3/2008 8:26:41 AM

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I AM GLAD I STARTED THIS THREAD, I AM FEELING BETER ALREADY

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/3/2008 2:53:42 PM

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Had another one too...
Just finished building a ultimate biplane. Went to take it to the field for its maiden.
I didnt have a topper on the back of the truck, so I put the plane in the back of the truck, and put a tarp over the truck bed. Tied it all down real tight.

Get to the field, and the rudder was completly snapped off right at the fuselage.

Apparently the tarp was flapping around so bad as I was driving to the field that the poor rudder just couldnt handle it, and it broke.

What is it with rudders?

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/3/2008 3:10:55 PM

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The problem is the ultimate,s rudder its so dam big. lol

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/3/2008 3:16:42 PM

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A few years ago, I was building a Stunt Wagon kit. The kids were, at the time, 6 and 5, so I'd been pretty firm about telling them "Do not touch any part of daddy's airplane. Ever. Not even a little"

Had, one afternoon, finished the wing, save for covering, and had leaned it against the garage door tracks for a few moments to clean off the build table a bit. Got called away by a phone call.

Standing in the house, on the phone, daughter comes and interrupts me...something about closing the garage door or something. Frustrated at the interruption (first of my plane work by a phone call, and now of the phone call by my daughter) I was pretty harsh and snapped at her to take care of it herself, and stop bothering daddy.

So, being the well behaved and compliant child she is...she did.

And hit the button to close the garage door....right onto the wing.

Totally not her fault. She had done PRECISELY what I had asked her to do....NOT touched daddy's airplanes, and "taken care of closing the door herself".

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/4/2008 4:02:18 AM

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I have a couple, none of them were REALLY bad. It happened while I was taking my plane apart after a REALLY windy day of flying. It's a P47 thunderbolt, and I had just fixed the retracts (servo mount broke). I decided to fly it once, and just once b/c I couldn't risk crashing. Well, my dad flew twice and flew like a maniac (full-throttle, 3 feet off the ground, stretching the wing bolts and the CA hinges) and nothing happened to his plane. Right when I took my wing off the plane, the wind picked it up and blew it like 5 feet in the air and it settled on the corner of a picnic table. It's not very visible, but that's because I halfway caught it. I was being careful, my plane got hurt. My dad wasn't...his plane was fine.

Another one, a club member in El Salvador was leaving the flying field a LITTLE toasted in a pick-up without a camper on it. He had a gorgeous j3 cub fully assembled in his bed. He left early, but right as we were beginning to leave...our club president gets a phone call: "hello? yeah...did I leave my cub there?" No definite traces, but I'd swear to seeing yellow monokote on the highway!!

On the way to the airfield, I had my Funtana X50 in the trunk and my tool kit just behind the tail feathers. My dad slammed on the breaks, the tool box flew forward, crushing the tail feathers. A little CA was good enough for that day, but not for long

. Same thing happened to a friend...but he lost the back third of his electric plane.

A friend was also going up some steps with a Cap that he had maidened that day. He stopped to put the fuse down just before the steps. 2 steps up, (insert some imagination), and he had balsa splinters, monokote, and 2 wing ribs left in his hand.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/4/2008 4:49:21 AM

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I've kicked the vertical stab off my Telemaster and Avistar stepping over the plane and tripping on it.. DOH!

On time I hung my PT-17 on the garage door by the tailwheel. stepped back to see how the upper wing was aligned to the fuse.. It looked good till it fell off the door, landed upside down and smashed the rudder.

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/4/2008 7:00:11 PM

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i left my MFA Yamamoto in the workshop whilst i was on the computer in the next room.

my mum goes into the workshop (well actually its her conservatory, but ive nowere else to build) and a few seconds later i hear a "CRUNCH...", i sit in the computer chair thinking "ffs what the heck has she gone and done now"...

i sat there for about 5019 seconds until curiosity got the bette rof me, i turned around to see my mum looknig rather sheepish and the fuselage snapped nicely in half. turns out she went to close the windows and trod on my plane.

i had to rebuild the back of the fuse and make a new rudder as the tailwheel tore the bottom off the original one

and another time, i was range checking my planes at the field (3 of them) when i stepped back onto the tailfeathers of my Mick Reeves Gangster, only had to make a new elevator from some balsa sheet and it was flying again ^^

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/4/2008 11:45:10 PM

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One small step for man ------One large step for balsa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/8/2008 6:40:47 PM

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I mad the mistake of going within 5 feet of my planes when I was rip snorting drunk.. Bad Idea. I tripped over a jug of fuel and butt flooped onto the tail and wings of my Butterfly. to make things even better, I had to kind of roll over to get up, further crunching the balsa underneath.. It was a quick fix but I dont even go in my plane room now even after ONE drink!!

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RE: HANGER RASH - 4/8/2008 7:14:22 PM