Originally Posted by
2walla
Back in about 1984 I was in a Citabria and we hit a falcon 56.. it caved in 4 feet of the leading edge all the way back to the spar just outboard of strut attachment. We were at 1000ft agl and the model pilot didn't think we were anywhere close to hitting.
Yet another real life account of a model airplane hitting a full scale...thanks for sharing! Glad you made it back to the ground OK.
Hard to imagine someone flying a model in any way that might interfere with full scale but it does happen and unfortunately it will continue to happen. I hope the idiot flying the model airplane was held fully accountable...Maybe he was an AMA member and only had to worry whether our insurance would cover him financially or not... Hmmm....