Raining Airplanes!!!!!
01-21-2004 | 04:59 PM
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From: Corvallis, OR
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Hey Jim,
I gotta ask, how do you fly now and were you a "Thumbs on top of the sticks" flier before that accident? I have been flying for over 28 years and have seen my share accidents, but yours is really nasty! I am glad that you still are able to fly and am very glad that you posted the photos of your plane, hand & tach.
Would you mind if I print your photos to put up at our club field? I am always telling people to get behind their engines when tuning or using a tach. Maybe your photos will make them understand why...
I gotta ask, how do you fly now and were you a "Thumbs on top of the sticks" flier before that accident? I have been flying for over 28 years and have seen my share accidents, but yours is really nasty! I am glad that you still are able to fly and am very glad that you posted the photos of your plane, hand & tach.
Would you mind if I print your photos to put up at our club field? I am always telling people to get behind their engines when tuning or using a tach. Maybe your photos will make them understand why...
01-21-2004 | 07:11 PM
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I went to the Local RC field last Sat and I was Shocked and scared to death after reading all these messages.
One guy had a 1/5th scale Arf and was running it up with people standing in front of it. Another guy was running his pattern plane up with his Kids 5 feet in front of it.
The bad part about it was.
Out of about 40 People that was there you saw maybe 5 getting out of the way.
The rest was standing there just watching or not paying attention.
I am not a Politically correct or Hollier than thou type person. But all I could see was one of these motors coming off and eating 3 or 4 people up.
One guy had a 1/5th scale Arf and was running it up with people standing in front of it. Another guy was running his pattern plane up with his Kids 5 feet in front of it.
The bad part about it was.
Out of about 40 People that was there you saw maybe 5 getting out of the way.
The rest was standing there just watching or not paying attention.
I am not a Politically correct or Hollier than thou type person. But all I could see was one of these motors coming off and eating 3 or 4 people up.
01-21-2004 | 07:41 PM
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You and anyone else who wants to has my permission to print all those pics and show them around. Hope it helps to keep at least one Bonehead from doing what I did.
I have never been Thumbs On Top of the sticks. I grab the stick between my cheek and gum, oh no, that's Skoal. I hold the sticks between my thumb and forefinger. Better smoother control.
I have never been Thumbs On Top of the sticks. I grab the stick between my cheek and gum, oh no, that's Skoal. I hold the sticks between my thumb and forefinger. Better smoother control.
01-21-2004 | 07:46 PM
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Print out my pics and show them around. That might convince them otherwise. I thank God there was no one else behind me as the engine flew about 50 feet through the air and hit the fence post hard enough to break my APC prop. Now just let you imagination run wild and you can see what could have happened to some little innocent kid.
GET THE KIDS THE HELL OFF OF THE FLIGHT LINE AND BEHIND THE FENCE OR TAKE THEM HOME.
They're too dang hard to replace and just imagine what your wife will say when you tell her Honey, I'm sorry but I've killed our kid.
Think People!
GET THE KIDS THE HELL OFF OF THE FLIGHT LINE AND BEHIND THE FENCE OR TAKE THEM HOME.
They're too dang hard to replace and just imagine what your wife will say when you tell her Honey, I'm sorry but I've killed our kid.
Think People!
