Sunday, July 6 2008
Plane: Alpha .40
Pilot: Andy Guthrie
At our club we have some guys that like speed, some like it more than others, but Andy Guthrie and Geoff Cartwright like it more than anyone. Andy and Geoff both have older planes that they push to the limits and that was no different on sunday. They were chasing each other around, like always getting closer and closer, when they finally hit while banking. Well one plane when down while the other landed safly. As of about 12:00 pm they had not found the plane.
Damage: ????? (but probably not good)
The Swamp monster wins again!
Friday, July 4 2008
Plane: Funtana X100
Pilot: Mike Morrison
Mike cut his flying day short when he made a bad laning. It happens to everyone ecept some times it ends bad. For mike he ripped the gear out from the tana'. He got it fixed and the next was flying it again.
Damage: Knocked the gear out from the plane, but nothing to bad.
Saturday, May 10 - 2008
Plane: Cub
Pilot: Joe Pennington
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a quarter size cub hit a windsock mounted on a 1-1/4 inch pipe. Well, now we know. Joe Pennington was enjoying a leasurely flight when he came across center field and "CLUNK" ....... Right into the windsock. Damage to the plane was bad but not a total loss, wing damage and torn landing gear, but it actually broke the windsock pole at a joint. It's OK, now the windsock it 4 feet shorter, probably better anyway!
Damage: Well..................
Friday, April 25th
Plane: Sundowner
Pilot: TJ
Maiden flight for the new bird, all was good as TJ and Drew got her all tuned and trimmed. Everything was beautiful until he tried to come in for a slow landing. Apparently, the sundowner likes to land fast. As he came in for final approach, it stalled a little high, so TJ gave it some throttle to circle and land again, but it torqued to the side and did a beautiful knife edge.......right through the pits and under the new fence. He would have made it too except for the top rail of the fence sliced the wing off like a hot knife through a stick of butter.
Damage: Nothing that ole TJ can't handle - it'll be back up inside a week!
Sunday, April 20 2008:
Plane: Funtana X100
Motor: YS 1.10
Pilot: Chris Lamar
Sunday probably turned out to be one of the best flying days of the year, so far. Calm winds and the tempature in the mid 70's. It was Chris' first flight of the day and he was doing his usuall flying and having fun. He just got done with a snap roll when he suddely started yellling that he had no throttle controll and of course it got stuck at full throttle. The Funtana x100 is a slow flying airplane and can not fly fast without the risk of something blowing off. His first thought was to start going straight up so he would not stress the plane too much at full throttle. After everyone started watching, a lound sound came from the plane and then silence. He thought it was a regular deadstick but then he relized he didn't have good controll over the plane. The first thing that came to everyone's mind was one or more controll surfaces gotten blown off. He finally horsed it all the way to the grown for a beautiful landing about 10 feet from the runway. Chris and a couple guys walked to get the plane. When they got there they had a big surprise. NO MOTOR!!! The motor had flown off and the cowl was destroyed, but other than that not a scratch on the plane. The motor mount failed and caused the motor to fly off. By some mericle they found the little motor in the big field with little damage. Chris's nick name lives on LUCKY LAMAR.
Damage: Cowl destroyed and motor mount broke. On the engine the prop is broken/missing and the throttle arm is broken. Chris should have it back in the air in a week or two.
Saturday, April 19 2008:
Plane: .40 Hooker
Motor: O.S. .40
Pilot: Teddy Sapp
After haveing some motor problems Teddy finally got the nerve to fly his new hooker. The wind was a little gusty but no to bad, he pointed nose into the wind and advanced the throttle. It took off pretty good but you could tell that it need a lot of trim to keep it flying. He started his first turn towards the swamp and then all of a sudden it turned back the other way and was heading towards the pits. It looked like he had controll but it started coming down. Before anybody could say anything....BAM it hit the ground. The plane hit right in the middle of the pits, luckly nobody was standing around that area.
DAMAGE: Wing was a total loss but fuse seemed to have minor damge. Teddy plans to rebuild and get her in the air for round 2.
