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Joined: 10/28/2003 From: North Little Rock,
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You think that your plane is toast after a crash, well maybe so, but usually a little CA will go a long way. But these might need some JB Weld and some rivets. Seriously, the attached photos were taken by myself on the early afternoon of April 4, 2008 at the North Little Rock Airport, N. Little Rock, AR. All the damage was from an estimated F1 tornado that made a direct hit on the ramp during the late evening of April 3, 2008. I worked and flew a few of these planes back in the undergrad days in the early 80's, I really got to know them like some people know thier classic cars. I'll miss them, especially N2490K, one of the primary trainers that I built up a lot of flight hours in. To let you know, the tornado jumped over my house as I live less than 1 1/2 miles from the airport. Thanks God that only property damage occured and no known deaths. Many people were affected throughout the path of the storm and may your prays go out to them. I can say that the National Weather Service and local TV station weatherpeople did an outstanding job that night on keeping everyone informed. My thanks go to them!
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Joined: 7/1/2007 From: gilmer/nacogdoches,
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that was a bad storm system that came through arkansas.. i was camping in albert pike, just outside of hot springs arkansas that night.. i was in a tent btw.. it was the worst storm i have ever camped through. my wife and i were in a dome tent and we were on a shelf just above the river we were camped beside and we had to get up at 3 am because the water was licking at the tent, we moved to higher ground and at 4:30 am i woke up to check things again and when i looked down at where we were sleeping before it was about 2 ft of rushing water instead of dry land! that was kinda scary. plus at about 11pm (before the river rose so high) a tree was struck by lightning just outside of where we were camped and it fell within 30yards of my sister and her husband's tent.. needless to say, it was a rough night for everyone.
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Joined: 1/3/2004 From: Cabot,
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This is really sad as I did all my Private Pilot flight training at NLR airport as well. Barret Aviation is a great place and it is really a shame to see such a nice airport torn up like this. Sitting in a possible tornado producing storm right now as well. This weather sucks!!!!
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Joined: 2/28/2005 From: Finksburg,
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That seriously made me cry. I am a pilot and the son of an airplane owner and I remeber the feel I had when we found metal in the oil, turned out to be a razor blade go figure right, can't imagine seeing our plane like that. Like I said enought to make the toughest of men cry.
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Joined: 2/27/2004 From: broxburn,, UNITED KINGDOM Status: offline
What a terrible sight,in the end as long as no one was injured thats the main thing.I will say from afar here in Scotland we have no idea about the damage tornado's can do,your resilience is to be applauded,how you put up with the thought that this could all happen again and carry on is beyond me. Like one of the other guy's said our thoughts go out to everyone who has lost through this be it a plane or property or anything else. We complain here because of a lot of rain and wind but we have nothing to complain about really. Jim.
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Joined: 2/27/2007 From: Kitchener,
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man it doesnt take much for that to happen with some of those planes... I fly cessna's and the wind can easily make one of them put a wing on the ground. I feel bad for the people who have all the money into the planes, cause insurance may not cover the cost of a new plane depending on the price of the original.
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