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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gray Fowler and Paul Villarubea midaired wing to
wing. Fowler did that exact same thing at the Dallas contest
last year...AND landed it perfectly on the runway. It was slowly rolling
and going a way from him and towards the ground at what seemed like full
throttle and his caller said knife edge it. Got the heavy wing down
and stabilized it and then rolled it upright with mucho rudder and opposite
aileron. Was a sight to see. Paul Villarubea wing was nearly
broken in half and had he put any neg G' on it at all it would have snapped and
he made a near perfect landing also. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>W.G.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=vanputte@cox.net href="mailto:vanputte@cox.net">Ron Van Putte</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 14, 2005 9:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Curious About Mid Air
Collidions</DIV>
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Curious About Mid Air
Collidions<?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 8080,0000,FFFF><?x-tad-bigger>While
talking pattern the question came up about how many mid air collisions there
were in a season flying pattern.<?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 8080,0000,FFFF><?x-tad-bigger>I
thought I would post the question and possibly get an idea of the number
from the your answers.<?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 8080,0000,FFFF><?x-tad-bigger>At
the contests that I attended in 2004 I counted four, let me know what
contest you attended that experienced one.<?/x-tad-bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>The most
memorable midair I ever saw was between Ray McCellan and Chip Hyde at a Nats
in Lawrenceville, IL. After the collision, both airplanes went to idle and
several pieces began to fall. Then, the engine on Chip's airplane went to full
throttle and he put it into knife edge flight. It was minus half the right
wing. He flew the airplane back and dumped it on the runway.
Incredible!<BR><BR>Ron Van Putte<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>