I was at the first annual Profile Brother Funfly in Memphis. Everyone was flying everyone elses profiles. After I flew Jim Nohsey's plane I wanted him to fly my Knife so he could check out the Ultrathrust muffler. He was putting her through it's paces and about a hundred feet up (Jim I'm not sure how high it was but it was up there) he came out of manuever and she pointed here nose down and just kept going. He said he didn't have it. I don't normally have radio problems but I figured it was a done deal as we watched it blaze into the earth nose down from up high. I saw it hit the ground and then I heard what sounded like a pistol shot - BANG!
Well I walked out through the cornfield in the rain. As I got closer I was looking for the debris. I didn't see any. I got right up on it and didn't see a splinter! I wish I had a picture but I was in GahGah land at the time. She was stuck nose down with her tial straight in the air. I pulled her out of the mud and NO DAMAGE! The gear was pushed back 15 degrees (a 10 minute fix), the prop was broken and the carb was rotated back a little! The only other thing I noticed was the wing was a little loose in the frame (CA and 30 minute epoxy).
The mud in the pasture must have soaked up enough rain to totally take the impact. CRAZZY! It's like when that guy fell out of airplane and landed in a marsh and lived!
THANK YOU PROFILE GOD!!!