Lost A Wheel in Mid air. How Do you Land?
Being a Member of the AMA for a long time. Ireceive the magazine and for a time they were sending me the Model Aviation DVDs. I've seen some really good Pilots loose wheels on take offs. (many have retracts of course) This makes me feel better, knowing I'm not the only one that has ever lost a wheel on take off. My model however, is not not that advanced. My landing gear is fixed. Ifly from a grass run way. But I have never had a wheel come off before. Since Iwas flying the U Can do 60. Iknew Icould make really slow gentle landing.. I tried to land as gentle as I could. But when the landing gear touched the ground, it broke the bottom of the airplane out. Then It ripped through the wing. Then it put a whole in the tail. And then it punctured Elevator! It seems to me, the only other option was to land into some really tall grass, on the other side of the field. Would this have helped lessen the damage?
I'm looking for landing Stories, and tips when things like this go wrong.