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Old 11-14-2005, 11:54 AM
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Default RE: RC Airshow Midair - Biplane vs. GeeBee

Yeah, the GeeBee had some tail damage and was a handfull coming in, plus I think it was deadstick. Those things don't glide so well when all is well so I don't think there was much the GeeBee pilot could do. The GeeBee hit fairly hard, but I didn't get a very close look at the damage. Besides the tail, the huge cowl was damaged heavily and one wing also was battered up pretty good.

The biplane had it's firewall ripped out and one of the wings broke in half at the joiner. They both were probably fixable, but I haven't seen either of them at the field since. I bet the biplane is done as that one has been around a long time and changed owners a few times. It was ready to go. Nice classic WWI death spiral so it went out in style.

Blender - sorry the video didn't work you you. It's a standard .mpg format so Windows Media Player should be able to handle it. I was also able to view it using QuickTime, but I prefer WMP for mpg files. I'm on WMP version 10.