original crash pics

[steve pagano]

OK this new topic is for all of you flyer's who had a run in with that pesky ground. post some pics of your most memorable crash!!!!

     I guess ill go first. this is my first el jay i had back in 05,  i put her in by tripping over my shoelaces while exiting the over head eight 
 ( I'm crying on the inside!!!)

[Rick Campbell]

Great thread idea . . . I had a similar idea for the e-newsletter I do for the New England Stunt Team: An "In Memoriam" section for all the ships that "didn't make it through the season".  I sent out
an email asking for photos and stories.  Maybe even a "before and after" shot . . . and got only ONE response.  I know these guy stuffed plenty of ships over the Summer, but nobody wanted to own up to it!

No sense of humor, I guess.

Rick

[john e. holliday]

Only picture ever taken of a broken airplane was at the very first VSC I attended.  They didn't get a befor picture and needed it for the Stunt News report.  It was a PowWow that wind did a 180 while doing figure 8.  Spinner and motor mounts saved my engine.  The wing was in two pieces.  I think someone took a picture of my Olympic at the Iowa contest.  It was worse than it looked.  Later,  DOC Holliday

[Shultzie]

WILD BILL NETZZZZEEEEBAND-DEEDO!!!!

I think it was Bob Gialdini who once said...BILL was alway first on the sight of ANY CRASH!
WHERE IS BILL!!!
 HE MUST HAVE AN EXTENSIVE PHOTO GALLERY OF SPECTACULAR STUNT MODEL PHOTOS?"

DIG OUT THOSE OLD MODEL-MORGE PHOTOS...AND POST THEM RIGHT NOW!!!

[minnesotamodeler]

Betcha can't tell wht this usd to be...caught it wrong in the wind and it kinda rolled up the lines, right over my head, hit about halfway out the other side of the circle and shed parts all the way to the perimeter. One of my more spectacular crashes.

--Ray

[Zuriel Armstrong]

Well with friends like Louis Rankin, a picture had to happen.  This was my Force and it had over 300 flights.  I put the lines on backwards and this was the result.  I had it for a little while.

[Paul Taylor]

OK I will share....
Here is my SkyRay. I forgot down was up, or up was down... I can not remember.



Last picture is maybe how you should fly Steve.
Barefoot!


That is my wing man Propbuster.

[Garf]

I also prefer not to relive my crashes. There have been too many of them.

[Keith Spriggs]

Here a couple of before and after shots taken when a group of us got together for the first time after a 15 to 50 year layoff. Hmmmm seems I didn't get any pictures of my plane.

[Artur Caban]

This is my Banshee a 6 days ago after unfinished inverted wingover. Current in rebuild.
Artur.

[Paul Taylor]

Well with friends like Louis Rankin, a picture had to happen.  This was my Force and it had over 300 flights.  I put the lines on backwards and this was the result.  I had it for a little while.

Hey you need to add me to your friends list.
How about this one Zuriel.
Zuriel's plane... B4 and after.

2nd plane lost at Louis's field.

[Zuriel Armstrong]

Wow!!!  I have more than one friend.  You are correct though and both plane hit the ground within about twenty feet.  That was my second flight with my own airplane at Lou's field too.