jsonin

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On Sunday morning, Teddy (f2racer) and I were goofing around. I began barrel rolling as I approached Teddy's Morris Knife and on the third roll, my right aileron and wing tip hit his prop and nose. Both of us kept flying (nothing really happened to Teddy's plane). My right aileron was hanging by a monokote thread so I managed a touch and go to 'wipe' off the dangling surface.

We kept flying.. just a little tape and off we went! I love these Morris planes.

-Juhan

aftcg

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So you flew with only one aileron?

CDN Marvin

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One of the aileron linkages on my knife came off today, as well. Made it sort of hard to handle, as it was only my 3rd flight with it.

TERMAGATOR

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Nice job Juhan, looks pretty tough with its bandage

jsonin

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Yup, the aileron was sheared off along with a significant part of the monokote. Knife edges were a breeze tape-side down.. ha ha! Really.

Check out what happened 15 minutes before the mid-air... Ricardo (on far right) flew my Yellow Aircraft Extra. Ten seconds into the flight, blam!

We were in hysterics.

-Juhan

CarolinaCrasher

Juhan, sounds like your planes had a rough day. But it is impressive that you got the Knife down in one piece and flew it again.

Goinstraightup

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Red Green would be sooooo proud. Nothin' beats good ol' red neck weldin' rod.

3dkid

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handy mans secret weapon

ShempHoward

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Juhan: Was that your 60 or 120 size YA Extra?

jsonin

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Howdy Shemp, how are you doing?

That was my older 60-size Extra. Ricardo gave it a whirl and he took off beautifully... but 10 seconds into the flight, the engine died deep over the tall SE trees. Not much he could do. We were laughing the whole time. The 120-size is still around but last time out the landing gear caught a mole-hole... even though it was a mint landing, the left tire fit perfectly into the hole and tore the gear clean off. Time to fix the dovetailed landing gear block.

Are you coming out this way? We've got a fun-fly on May 10th and we're starting a combat group (~10 ppl)... flying SPAD flat bats (but folks can fly anything under a .40 plane).

See you at the field,
Juhan

Bob Talley

quote:
"I love these Morris planes."

Me too! I have been flying them since they first came out. My favorite strange episode was with one of my Spinsations - (can't recall which one - I have had 5 so far, but I just save the wing and keep building new fuselages for them.) Anyhow, this particular one had long since seen better days - having been patched and recovered several times. On the second or so flight of the day, I was doing what a Spin does best - inside-out, upside-down whoop-ti-doos - and I was in complete control. Then a fellow club member came over to me and told me that some of my wing covering had fallen off. I could not tell that anything was wrong by the way it was handling, but I decided to land anyway. The approach and landing was perfect - at least, as perfect as a Spin can land.

So I went over to pick it up and found that the covering on the top of the entire right wing was totally missing. In the air, it had given me absolutely NO hint that anything was amiss - at all airspeeds from top throttle down to a very slow low throttle landing.

I DO love that Spin !

- So who says that aerodynamics is such a precise science?


Bob T.

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I had an aileron linkage come off my TT extra. The only difference I could tell was that it would only snap in one direction. Other than that, it was happy flyin'.

lomcevek1

I had the entire tail fly off of a tt extra fun-fly had roll controll only.
results = aircraft destroyed wood was like butter soft

ShempHoward

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Juhan - Thanks for the invite but unfortunately I'm at the point where taking care of my mother is almost a full time job so travel East is out of the question for the near term.

How is Captain Jeff these days? Has he caught any flying fish? Does he still have that red GP Easy Sport with 2 million flights on it?

I'd love to attend your fun fly as I am in the middle of setting up a Dog House Extreme however we have plenty of those evil mole holes at both fields I fly at only they are all along side the paved runways so when you walk off the pavement you need to be careful or you'll break an ankle just like one member did last year while trying to hand launch is electric pylon racer.
He took a few fast steps and then "SNAP" followed by a screaming OOWW followed by a full power nose into the dirt. It took just a millisecond.

BTW - I am glad to hear you still have the Burlington field and that the greedy City of Boston still, apparently, has not found a way to break that Trust.

Goinstraightup

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A few years back I lost the whole main gear (and mounting block) off of my GP Big Stick 40. I tried to land reeeeaaaal soft, and wadaya' know, it went fine! Looked kind of funny landing with only the nose wheel, with the tail dragging. It went so good that I powered up and took off. Tail bouncing all over. I did about 6 touch and go's with only the nose wheel. Very funny.

jsonin

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All of these accounts of missing landing gear, surfaces, etc show how durable and resilient these planes can be.

Here's Jeff flying his one-wheeled Extra 300L in for a landing...
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia...xtra_wheel.mov

Shemp: Jeff's fine - mostly on the boat and yup, he still has that GP Easy Sport with ~1500 flights on it (it's been on the shelf for the past year.. like a trophy).

-Juhan