 | This is the wing damage done when David hit one of the wood stakes around the newly paved runway. OUCH |
 | George's Four star after hitting a fence. The fence always wins! |
| The trees are always hungry! It eventually fell out of the tree. |
 | Don't
try this at home!. Many of us have had a "Close encounter of the
evergreen kind" at our field. It's a very unforgiving flying site. Yes,
he did get the plane back with only minor damage, and he's still flying
it today. |
 | David's Avistar. He lost orientation while turning for an approach from the North end of the field and came down in the bus garage compound. |
 | Jeff's
P-38 after the second flight. He flew too slowly on turn to final
approach and tip stalled while flying the War birds fly-in on April 19,
2008. |
| Frank got too close to the tree line on March 22, 2008 and brought back a sample! |
 | We even have an UGLI video!
This is a reminder that this hobby can be dangerous. Jeff Howard, one
of our best and most experienced pilots was doing
touch-n-gos with his C-160 twin when the port engine died. Because he
was at low throttle for a landing, he didn't know the engine had died
until he throttled up to go around. The moment of impact is not
shown because the photographer was trying to get out of the way!
The truck that the plane came to rest on was his. Only
minor damage was done to both the truck and the airplane. Click
on the picture to play the video. |