Lol! Speaking of dead stick landings... I did my first over Thanksgiving. I was up in CO Springs visiting my girlfriend's parents. Her step dad was just getting into power and asked me to help trim out his plane. Never having flown a plane with a prop before I said "Sure."
We got to the field and talked to some of the guys out there. They asked me if I had flown before and I replied "I've never flown power." We were instructed to go to the "bad" runway away from everyone else. Take off was fine. Engine cut off about 45 seconds later. He noticed the prop had stopped spinning and yelled "Dead stick!!!" (I thought something was wrong when applying throttle had no effect...) I have never seen people run for cover so quickly! Brought it back to the field and touched down about 1 foot past the grass...rolled about 10 feet to a stop. People saw it, some applauded. He even has it on video :) Just go out there again and kill the motor on purpose when there are lots of people out there :) Jared -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:45 PM To: Soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] Movie review ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Johns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <soaring@airage.com> It needed some soaring > content. > > Bill > Yeah is Howard was the stud everyone thought he was he would have done a dead stick landing. And speaking of which, I did my first dead stick landing last week on my pattern plane. It was perfect, approach, landing, rollout. Probably the best landing I have every made. And there was not a single other person at the field. I hate this hobby. Kristopher RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
