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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lance, I feel your pain. Friday night I
thought I'd grab a few flights on the new Impact--on No. 3, I screwed up in the
middle of the sequence and went into trimming mode--ran it out of juice, landed
a little hot and ran off the runway about 30'. One of the nicer, older
guys was setting up as I was flying, and as I was power taxiing it back after
walking out to check it out, he started his take-off run and didn't see me until
his airplane hit mine. I couldn't believe my eyes. I guess the
lesson learned is to clear the runway path asap even when you are (almost) by
yourself. I don't have any spare oz. either--I was in spitting
distance--but now.....?!? It got the area at the juncture of the fuse and
leading edge of the right wing--the biggest problem is it hit the gear and broke
the gear plate--I'm contemplating the lite fix--a little cf here and a little
slo-cure epoxy there, tack-tack-tack the composite foam shell stuff.
Matt's gear be TOUGH.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=patterndude@comcast.net href="mailto:patterndude@comcast.net">Lance
Van Nostrand</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:04
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Oops, Notes to self 4</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The unfamiliar faces at the field thought my
Symphony was so cool. It was blowing hard on Sunday, about 30 mph.
Most were standing around but I was flying. The plane gathered
attention, so much so that when I began to do some work on it (change a glow
plug) the guys generously decided to shield me and my plane from the
wind. They took the steel topped, steel framed 8 foot table and laid it
on its side as a wind screen.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What nice guys I thought.
After the maintenence I stood up and talked about pattern. Out of the
corner of my eye I could see it happen. The tables had been laid with
the legs away from me and the plane. In other words, on the upwind
side. it was all in slow motion. the table began to roll over, I
screamed and made some uncoordinated lunge toward it but I was too far away.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I guess the shattered plane stand
and smashed canopy weren't able to slow the force of the table. But the fuse
and engine held better than expected. I now have stress cracks all over
the nose of the plane and a piece of table in my Mintor head fins but it
is not ruined. Fill sand and paint can restore the beauty, but I don't
have that many ounces to spare in a Nats plane. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Note to self: even well meaning
people can make mistakes around pattern planes. Do not ignore their
gestures, no matter how considerate.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Lance</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>