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11-25-2015, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Silent-AV8R

The incident with a blimp was the Goodyear blimp in Carson, CA. The RC model hit it intentionally and the guy went to jail. The blimp suffered damage and made an emergency landing:

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-...goodyear-blimp

The biplane & RC plane incident caused more than trivial damage to the biplane and completely destroyed the RC plane. Bottom line on that one was that neither one was completely in the right on what they were doing.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news..._204696-1.html

Ok, I did not know there was so much damage to the blimp, but technically it did bounce off as the owner had the plane. The bipe is as I described it damaged but could fly home. More than trivial perhaps. Dented to the first spar, some said the main spar but actually to a spar in front of that probably 6 to 10" behind the leading edge. That is where the engine hit I guess.

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