WHO ?

Who? What? Mike Jones!!!

Well, I'de say wait untill it comes down.

Well i dont fly planes, im into off road rc but this thread made me laugh over and over. Glad you got your plane back in the end, I would have wondered for the rest of my life what had happened to it.

Hi all,
Now here is the beginnings of a new thread - monkey in a tree, line and sinker anyone
One of my friends used to have a monkey as a pet. He, (my friend, who was not the monkey) thought it (the monkey, who was certainly not my friend) was as good a companion as a dog. He (oh come on, from now on when ever you see 'HE' read 'my friend who was not a monkey but had a monkey') went fly fishing - and yes he took it (at the risk of avoiding further confusion, 'it' represents HE's monkey hereon-wards). Now unlike dogs, monkeys are not known for crossing their front paws in front to pad the snout and wait patiently for action. They like to haunch on their rear ends and pounce around at anything that moves, creating the action themselves. To free his hands for action HE looped the chain attached to ITs collar to his little camping chair. IT sat for a while watching him cast in the slow flowing river. Now monkeys are not as intelligent as dogs, but they learn to mimic well pretty fast. By his fourth cast IT had got the idea and so IT grabbed a nine foot pole resting on the aforementioned chair and began waving it around. HE looked back and enjoyed the innocent gesture of his companion. Before long IT had the hang of it and was able to move the considerably heavy pole (IT was not a very big monkey) with some authority, catching him on his scalp on one of ITs casts. He shouted in pain, which startled and frightened IT, who started scampering for cover. Now envision this scenario, the chair, the chain, the pole and the line, all attached to an anxious monkey - and you would get the idea.
HE got the idea too, and a visit to the hospital. The monkey on the other hand, was never hurt in any way in the making of this story and lived happily ever after

True Story, Cross My Heart.

(BTW, for the benefit of our royal subjects, because SHE has never been known to keep a monkey for a companion, HE doesnt represent, refer to or abbreviates for Her Excellency Her Magesty the Queen of Narnia.

GREAT STORY That gave my laugh for the day and the day has just started here.

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After being thoroughly amused by this thread which seems to now have a life all of it's own, I must relate my recent tree incident.

I was flying at my club's field last Sunday afternoon as the heat of the day and haze was breaching it's most opressive point. We have a line of trees and pretty thick forest at the north end of our runway. The wind was coming out of the southwest. I took off in my recently restored Sig Skybolt. She flew beautifull if not a tad sluggish at gaining altitude due to the high humidity. It came time for landing and I set up for a long one, as I normally do. I headed straight towards the tree line and turned left onto my base leg in front of the trees. Ah this was going to be a textbook landing. Before I turned final, I apparently let my airspeed get to low as the plane dropped it's left wing and nosed down. I let her gather a little speed before instinctively increasing the throttle and wrenching her back up and to the right. Well I overcompensated and still did not have enough airspeed so now instead of seeing the top of the wing as she went down, I saw the bottom of the wing (we're still in front of the tree line here). I advanced the throttle all the way now, leveled the wings and yanked back on the stick. She shot skyward and headed out over the trees. Now all I needed to do was turn around and head back towards the field. Then, as if insult to injury, the engine quit! She started dropping like a brick. It was all I could do to keep the nose and wings level but there was no way she'd make the field. She settled into the top of a 100ft pine at the very edge of the tree line. When I went out to have a look it appeared as if she was on one piece. I immediately called a local tree climber who is sensitive to the plight of the avid aeromodeler. 48 hours later he had my beautiful skybolt lowered to the ground. The only damage being some ripped Monokote and a crunched leading edge on the tip of the top wing. I couldn't believe my eyes!!

Well, she WILL fly again. The moral of the story is....when you have trees that close to the end of the runway, give them a WIDE bearth. There is no telling what might happen. I will CERTAINLY be practicing shorter approches for the rest of the summer!

Vow Buflash
Welcome to the Club! [:@] Seems to me that like some RCU threads and a few modellers, models may also have a life and mind of their own. Do you think that these tree hugging critters are trying to deliver a message here? I dont quite understand what these models and modellers are trying to say here - that there shall be no trees at all, or that there shall be no idiots at all. Well, anyway, neither is a possibility in a real 'green' world. My 'flying field' where I lost that limbo dancer in the tree is about a hundred yard long, but only 100 foot wide, there is a 150 foot high tree line at one end and Lake Ennel (lilliput fame) at the other. On sunny evenings there are cars parked all along the lake shore and joggers, horse riders and dog walkers continually criss cross the only landing patch. Only and idiot will fly a 44 cc powered 3D self design at this location.
Because of safety concerns during this busy summer season, I have recently started flying a hundred yards down the lakefront, This patch has a knee high wild growth all along but does have a runway the width of a car track. Here the trees are sparse and not as high. It is indeed great fun to take off and land on a three foot wide 200 foot long 'Run way' which has ruts about six inch deep at either side. Loose an engine or make a mistake lining up and touching down and you are sure to get at least your covering iron and solar film scraps out.
The takeoff routine is simple - line up at the straightest part of this curvilinear track, elevator trim a few notches down, get on your knees, hold the tail, push the throttle up with your chin and let go at full blast. once airborne, try to fly level for about fifty or so feet and then pull vertically up or a hard right climbing turn- lest you want to end-up in some trees again. [img][/img]
I am attaching a recent picture of my older flying site.
Enjoy

shakeelsid Yes we have had fun with your thread but now we know you got it back in peices How is it comeing along. Got it fixed yet ?
Ken

Nopes
It was up for so long in gales, rains and snow showers that it was good for skip only - the electrics and engine will fly someday, in a different airframe.
cheerios
sid

1) Try climbing the tree to a safe level (or use a very long ladder.)

2)Tie a long rope to the tree near the top (as high as you can go)

3) Throw the loose end of the rope to the ground.

4) Climb down the tree and pull on the rope to shake the top of the tree.

5) pick up the model (and or pieces thereof)

6) retrieval complete.

Get a blanket and shake it out and catch it before it hits the ground!

ya the bow and arrow method is good idea. try that with string and aim for the a wing.

Wait until it ripens, and it may just fall out...

phew, finally got to the end of this rather long tail, which, quite frankly is a very everday story - I guess there are hundreds of models flown into trees on a daily basis - just that some people suck it up and try again - others moan and groan. - It takes all sorts.....

you have missed the obvious!!!..

1. Sell it to a bird
2. plant a bean stalk and ask Jack to get it for for you
3. Ask the Jolly Green Giant to pick it off the top
4. David Blane may be available for some levitation
5.Ask a squirrel to chew the branch in exchange for a organic seed and nut bar
6. Ask God to help as you have helped lots of old ladies across the road
7. Forget it and take up cross stitch....

All the above.

I think you should buy a Raptor 90 RC helicopter, then attach a wireless camera and a claw to it. Fly it up to the plane and use the claw to pull it loose.

HA ! My luck I would have a heli in the tree also. Trained monkey is the trip.
Ken