Between Jeff C and myself, we must have built and crashed hundreds of planes in the mid to late eighties. We would build PT-40s and Sig Hummers in tandem and together on Thursday/Friday nights and smash them to oblivion on the weekend - rain, snow, wind, whatever nature threw our way. We giggled constantly. How could you not?! (Well, don't look at the biplane video...what scared me there was that I borrowed that engine from Jeff and I was sure it was going to be toast...it survived the crash). Jeff's classic line from that era of flying was, "Take a good look at them now, because in ten minutes, we'll show you what's left of them."

We religiously took our 8mm video camera on our weekend fly-fests. We've got hours and hours of belly-busting material from full throttle fence post hits to 20 foot tall splash downs in swamps to blizzard-like condition flying (and of course the warbird maiden voyage which lasts all but 35 seconds...).

I'll eventually digitize that material....just writing about it makes me smile. Thanks Keith for stopping by the site - Hope you enjoy it!

If you have a fast internet connection, the flicks download quickly. If you want to see our Yellow Aircraft CAP 232 aftermath video and don't mind downloading a 10MB quicktime file, here's the romp in the woods to find the plane:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/peo...bris_crash.mov

Jeff was doing knife edge loops when he stalled out of the bottom turn...and with high-rates on, he stalled again...we were only flying one-mistake high...dang!

Best flying,
Juhan