Ok so over the winter I spent a lot of time building new birds for this year. Even built really nice pvc racks in the garage, to store them on so they wouldn't get any hangar rash. Well so much for that.

Couple of nights ago I have to get into the attic to put away some travel bags and a cooler. Access is via drop down stairs in the garage.

No biggy, drop the stairs being careful not to bump any of the birds wings that sit by the steps.

Climb the stairs, cooler in my hands, travel bags on my shoulder. Just as I get to the top of the stairs I hear the most awful racket behind and below me.

I look back and see one of the bag's straps had caught the wing of my Predator. This flipped the Predator off it's top perch.

It in turn, knocked the B-17 forward on it's stand, causing the main wing to clear the front of the stand. It dropped only to catch the horizontal stabilizer, which caused it to pivot the B-17 like a pendelum.

The B-17 swung into my Corsair sitting on the rack below it, driving it's tail feathers into the wall behind. The Corsair didn't go down with out a fight thou, it drove it's spinner into the B-17's belly.

While all this was going on, the Predator decided there wasn't enough havoc yet. It nose dived straight down into the left wing of my VQ P-38.

Just like a spear it imbedded itself, at the same time rolling the 38 into the nearby work bench, slamming the right cowling off one of the benches legs.

And then just for good measure, the secondary impact knocked the Predator loose and it fell over on the right wing of the P38, putting a big gash in that wing.

Meanwhile as the Predator was destroying the 38, it musta decided to try the old "Kill two birds with one stone" thing. One of the Predators wings clipped my Slow Stick, knocking it to the floor and breaking the motor mount off the fuselage.

I'm just standing on the steps the whole time just too shocked to move.

In the matter of seconds, I've managed to render five of my planes, four of which had yet to see a maiden, into crushed balsa/foam/covering.

Nother one of those "I should have stayed in bed" days.