Would I be your Pilot?
Those who know my dad, knows he loves to fly RC planes. I never was one much for this. However, dad got me a whole setup last year, and this weekend when I headed home, well we went to fly.
On Saturday, everything went well, a loop here, a spin here and there, perfect landings within feet of where I stood.
Then Came Sunday.
On my third flight Mike E. goes, "hey Jerm do a loop". My first mistake, I thought ok... I had done these before, but always while the plane was flying away not toward me (which makes everything reverse in your mind).
Well after the plane started a serious nose dive spin... I started to try to get out of it. Well as it plummeted, 400 feet, 300 feet, 200 feet, somewhere about 50 feet I go "I DONT KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!" 1 Second later the plane was nose first into the ground in a nice spectacular crash.
Therefore, lesson of the day. When your plane goes crazy outta control, release the controls... let it straiten itself out.
Otherwise, you get a jig saw puzzle.
Comments
My RC Plane used to be mostly styrofoam and a bit of epoxy... now after I flew... ahem crashed it a few times, It is mostly epoxy and a bit of styrofoam
Was it a balsa plane or a ARF styrofoam plane?
balsas make a more spectacular crash. since fireworks are cheap, you should try to mount fireworks on your plane and shoot them while in the air (someone at work tried this but had a redneck engineered ignition system, which included straws and estees rocket ignitors)
Posted by: toopriddy | July 11, 2005 10:40 AM
I wish I had more of a point of reference for this post but the best airplane stories I have usually involve paper, a teacher, and something that was NOT supposed to be read in front of the whole class...
Although there was this one time when I was 7 or 8 and my dad took me to Disneyland and on the way down there, the flight attendant let me serve peanuts to the whole plane. That was pretty cool!
Posted by: Nina | July 12, 2005 08:40 AM
Hmm lets say well it didnt explode but you shake it now and it sounds like a musical instrument.
doh!
Posted by: itzjerm | July 12, 2005 05:28 PM