ORIGINAL: ExFokkerFlyer
This is copied from an email that I sent out to some members of NSRCA Ditrict 7. The incident is posted on the website and you can get to it following the below link. My only reason in posting this here is to hopefully prevent somebody from doing something as stupid as what I did today. I know there is the saying of "There are those that have, and those that will..." but I hope nobody makes the stupid mastakes that I made.
Sorry to hear about all the misfortune. I can remember being distracted many times assembling a plane - I've even flown one after forgetting to put the wing tube screw in and the only thing that prevented the wings from flying off were the retracts -when the wheels went up the rods kept the wings on. It was only on landing that I noticed the wings were "funny".
Or how about another veteran pilot that plugged his wings in and didn't make sure that the wing adjusters were actually plugged into his one wing - took off and thought he had lost it because his one wing had about 20 degrees of incidence - managed to land it though.
Hope to see you soon!