sudden stop

[mark eisenhut]

i was flying my arf tutor today and it was flying great! it was like i had all my skills back from 30 years ago. when all of a sudden the ground jumped up and hit my tutor right dead in the prop! i have never seen a plane explode like that before what a day and thats my story and I'm sticking with it !there are no piece over 10 "s long it fit in a small bag it a tutor jig saw puzzle now. thats flying
mark eisenhut

[Randy Powell]

Yea, you have to love it when it blows up in the air.

[Bill Little]

Upon crashing, which seems to be inevitable except for Billy Werwage, if a plane does not fly into a couple thousand pieces, it wasn't built to be a stunter!

You cannot build a good stunt ship that will survive a crash.  We build them to fly!

Bill <><

[Bill Turner]

You have now graduated into SAD

Society of Aircraft Demolishers   "Aircraftus Fragmentum"

I was told if you don't want to crash them, don't fly them.

Well best of luck and keep on.

Bill

[Clay Schmidt]

Mark,

Yes,  There is just something about cracking one up good after thirty years. The skills SEEMED to be coming back.  Then I smoked a Cardinal straight into the concrete this last summer.  GIBLETS!    It was awesome.  I enjoyed it so much I had to build another right away.  I dorked it up too.  It's repairable though.  Anyway that's why I'm building two right now.   I'll get all the rust off one of these days.

Clay

[Gene Elliott]

Mark,
Two weeks ago I crashed trying to fly inverted. It was a scratchbuilt of my own design using a Banshee wing. I glued the wings back on and a few days ago I flew it again and two laps into the flight the outboard wing came off! (It obviously wasn't a good repair job.) Three ounces later after some boring roundandround I made a perfect landing with just the inboard wing! Chalk it up as a new experience.

Gene

[steve pagano]

iv never herd of an arf exploding in to peices got any pics??
 -steve

[Keith Spriggs]

i was flying my arf tutor today and it was flying great! it was like i had all my skills back from 30 years ago. when all of a sudden the ground jumped up and hit my tutor right dead in the prop!

A bad thing that I have had happen, is to fly thru a time warp. One second everything is just fine, I know I didn't do anything wrong, next thing I know the plane is scattered all over the field. I hate it when that happens.

[Jim Treace]

I have many, but my goofiest crash story...... I put my Flight Streak into the ground, but it was the stooges fault! I got my feet wrapped up in the stooge release cord. By the time I noticed it, I was getting pretty much out of the circle, and my feet were getting tightly bound up. So I decided to fly inverted and unwind, no good. The rope was already wrapped tight on my boots. My wife was watching, we were both laughing.  Knowing it was going down and to minimize damage, I tried to skid it in at full speed....that doesn't work! A million tiny pieces.
Jim

[James Lee]

Years ago a fella showed up at the local flying field with a fairly nice Sig Super Chipmunk.  Flew around awhile and then in level flight it exploded!!  we went to examine the pieces and I saw most of the pieces held together with straight pins....  Didn't see hardly any glue joints....   He couldn't figure out the reason it came apart...   Apparantly the dope and tissue kept it togther for a while...   Didn't see him again....   
Jim

[rustler]

Always remember the folk myth ref. Colin Chapman's race car design philosophy - If it don't break it's too heavy!

[Garf]

Mark,
Two weeks ago I crashed trying to fly inverted. It was a scratchbuilt of my own design using a Banshee wing. I glued the wings back on and a few days ago I flew it again and two laps into the flight the outboard wing came off! (It obviously wasn't a good repair job.) Three ounces later after some boring roundandround I made a perfect landing with just the inboard wing! Chalk it up as a new experience.

Gene

Had the same thing happen a few years back. I didn't think an airplane would fly without an outboard wing.

[minnesotamodeler]

Combat wings of yesteryear would even stagger through loops and eights with only an inboard wing...I suppose modern versions would too.  I flew part of a match that way once.

--Ray