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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SunTracker on January 22, 2004, 09:03:49 AM
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Took these photos 15 minutes ago. I was flying in my backyard, doing good, when the engine quit in flight. So I started doing circles and s-turns to bleed off speed. Was coming in on a great approach over the neighbors yard, when a huge gust of wind hit my plane and blew it into this tree. No visible damage to the plane, but I can't climb the tree. Part of it is rotten, and the branches are tiny.
Anyone have a 45 foot pole I can borrow?
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Is that a squirrel I see ready to vulch your plane?
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Take a cat, stand under the tree, throw it as HARD as you can vertically into the air near a limb....then call the fire dept. :)
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Think an R/C helicopter could get in there and lift it out?
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Ouch, that hurts.
I had an Aerotech rocket that soared to 4000 ft and popped its chute, etc. Well winds caught and dragged it a long ways away...it landed in a farmers apple tree 20 feet from the ground. A tad too high to reach from a ladder, to far out on the branch to branch to climb out and grab. Bless his heart, he grabbed a pruning thingy, cut the branch and retreived the rocket.
Super nice guy, left him a $20 for his efforts :)
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That was nice of him.
$100 plane
$60 engine
$50 servos/battery pack
I got about $200 smackaroos in that tree.
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Better find a cherry picker. Other than that, I hope that's a foam wing, because monocote will tear to shreds, then the balsa will disintegrate.
Edit: Wait a tic, that's a duraplane. Better leave it in the tree.
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Is that HiTech trying R/C again?
:D
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Thats a SturdyBirdy II, foam wings, pvc fuse, aluminum tail boom, solid aluminum landing gear struts. I put some huge wheels on the plane for grass take-offs
(http://www.hobbico.com/airplanes/hcaa1010.jpg)
I did mine up with bright red wings, and british markings.
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It'll shake out of the tree on its own, but it might be a day or two. Pray it doesn't rain.
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can't u just shoot the branches?
lazs
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I used to instruct novice pilots at our local R/C club. I'd cringe when someone brought one of those "indestructable" planes to the field... invariably they proved, over and over, these planes could indeed be destroyed. That was way back in the late 80's and early 90's. They may be better now.
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Just biuld ya another "ugly stik" and stay away from trees!
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Flash Back That's to painful to look at. Too many bad memorys.
Get a rope on the branch and PULL
Good luck....
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Originally posted by Kieran
I used to instruct novice pilots at our local R/C club. I'd cringe when someone brought one of those "indestructable" planes to the field... invariably they proved, over and over, these planes could indeed be destroyed. That was way back in the late 80's and early 90's. They may be better now.
I don't know about Sturdybirds, but my Zagi is next to indestructable. I've augered the thing in from 40 feet, full power dive almost straight down.
You just go pick up the pieces, put them all back in the plane, and keep flying.
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Got the plane out, no damage, few little dents on leading edge of wing. Got out the 20 foot extension ladder and 10 foot painting pole.
I'm blaming this accident on too small of a flying area. Was only flying over about 2 acres. Thats tiny for an airplane to operate out of.
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Hell if that was my neighbor I would have been out there with the Bennelli 12 gauge taking shots at it in preparation for the late winter dove season here. hehehehe. Then once you drove it into the tree I would have gotten it down for you with the .30-06 by using the limb as target practice. It would have fallen eventually my way but at least I would have had a chance to expend some ammo. :)
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I unwisely flew a Zagi in a windstorm in Malibu a few years ago. Wind kept pulling it further and further away, even though I was trying to lose alt, so I decided to firewall my controls so it couldn't turn into a kite. It accelerated into a descending loop and disapeared into a tree in front of a house. Two seconds later (which was weird, it should have been much quicker) is appeared at the bottom of the tree, pulled up (the servos were stripped at this point, I determined) and blasted across their yard about three feet off the ground, probably doing about 30-40 mph (seemed faster at the time, so I'm slowing it down to account for the excitement of the moment) out of the yard, across the street, and slammed into the side of my (at the time) girlfriends car (denting it) and bounced into a construction dumpster next to the car.
I retrieved it. The nose was a little dented, but other then some crumpled ultrakote at the nose and the stripped servo gears (easilly replaced), it was fine. I've flown that Zagi many times since.
Zagi's are cool.
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Throw something at it.
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Friend made this for me
(http://www.am1web.com/uploads/neverforget.jpg)
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Ha! Beautiful! All it needs is a picture of Dale Earnhardt in the collage, and it's perfect.
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You spelled Nevar wrong.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Take a cat, stand under the tree, throw it as HARD as you can vertically into the air near a limb....then call the fire dept. :)
OMG ROFL so hard my wife would Kill me !