surprise, it was sitting pretty, unharmed between two industrial
warehouses.
I guess the helicopter action was not like a spiral death to the ground.
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Subject: [RCSE] Tree story, actually a pipe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, January 31, 2008 12:46 pm
On a similar note, when I was learning to fly back in the early 90s in
upstate NY, Bill Johnson the kind gentleman that that was mentoring me, said
to meet him at the flying field one afternoon. As I drove up I watched him
do a beautiful launch with his RES (something that started with an M... :)
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From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Tree story
Hi all,
All tree stories begin the same way, win this contest, win, win, one more
extra turn then the trees jump up and grab your plane
In the late 70's/early 80's at one of the early Visalia Fall Soaring Festivals
at the high school site, Don Doe (past NCSL Champion) was flying a Paragon on
yellow and white, a frequency that was also an emergency CHP channel. Suddenly
during a nice flight well above launch height Don lost
In a message dated 1/29/08 8:43:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why has every tree strike I've had end up with my prized glider
stalling straight down on a wing tip. Go figure.
My first thought was to step into its path and catch it. My second thought
was
For those that need revenge---
50mph winds at 2 AM blew down a very large pine in my back yard last night,
only winged things that are affected are the bunches of birds that live
there because the feeder is only 15 feet away.
Tree guys coming at 11:00.
Jack
On Jan 30, 2008 10:18 AM, David
In a message dated 1/29/08 8:43:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why has every tree strike I've had end up with my prized glider coming
stalling straight down on a wing tip. Go figure.
Maybe 10 years ago, while flying an SC2 contest at El Dorado park in Long
Hummm reminds me of another Eastern Soaring League event I was attending
in Maynard, Mass at the CRRC site, I'm guessing back in the late 90's...
Had my new Inventec Pelican (thank you Mike P.). I was having a great
day weekend I love that plane... I was very comfortable with it...
well,
About 14 or 15 years ago I was flying at the field on a rather windy, gloomy
day. There were many flyers their and the lift was challenging. ONE of the
older pilots got in trouble down wind and tree'd his glider. We all walked
back and located it Quikly.
That is when I informed the
Tree / Trophy story that happened back around 1976 (best guess) and I was
having a very unusual year with trees. Landing in a very tall tree at Lansing,
MI. straining an Aquila through a tree at Chicago at speed. The flying surfaces
stayed in the tree and the fuse came out alone. There were
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Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Tree story
Tree / Trophy story that happened back around 1976 (best guess) and I was
having a very unusual year with trees. Landing in a very tall tree at
Lansing, MI. straining an Aquila
Actually my tree story took place at an ESL event in 2005 at the S. Jersey
Silent Flyers field. I was there with my fiancee who had never been to a
soaring event before. Kathy was with me all through out the flying
season as I
prepared to re-enter the competition arena again.
SO there I
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From: Dennis Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; soaring@airage.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Tree story
At the WMSS we have an annual award called the Arboreal Award. This
prestigious award is granted
Why has every tree strike I've had end up with my prized glider coming
stalling straight down on a wing tip. Go figure.
Z
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Several years ago I used to fly at Riverside, CA with Mike Lee and the
Riverside club. One day a group of us were flying and Mike Lee had the
misfortune of landing in the top of a large, tall palm tree. Many of us,
grouped around the base of the tree, tryed to figure out what to do, finally
, January 29, 2008 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Tree story
At the WMSS we have an annual award called the Arboreal Award. This
prestigious award is granted to the the skilled pilot that manages to land
in a tree the most times in a single year. The award is a beautiful but
unfortunately dead bonsai tree
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