Curious About Mid Air Collidions

[Emory Schroeter]

Yeah, if it hadn't been my plane, that would have been a cool midair to watch. It just always makes me cringe to see our nice pattern planes get destroyed like that. I had about a 18 inch section of the nose that didn't get crunched in the collision and I still had throttle control. Although, it didn't do too much good without the other control inputs. Someone caught that on video, but I never had a chance to see it. Do you know who that was, Mike? 

Emory Schroeter
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Hester 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:20 AM
  Subject: Re: Curious About Mid Air Collidions


  Ya, I was judging that round. Nothing sucks worse than a mid air, but they happen occasionally. Thankfully we couldn't say they are common. I remember sitting there in shock myself, not really knowing what to say. Airplane shrapnel was raining everywhere. The only one I've ever seen that was worse was Emory Schroeter and Mike Hare. Spinner to spinner, THAT was a devastating impact.

  On the bright side, it WAS a nice pull =) Nice and round, centered, and right over the markers. Looked like a 10 in the making. I felt sick about the mishap, for both you and Tony. But they all have expiration dates, too bad you can't read them =/

  Welp, burn some fuel, Ocala awaits! (You are going aren't you?) You have definitely perservered (sp? whatever) over last season so you're hooked now. If I can help ya out in any way, just drop me a line, I'm not far away.

  -Mike
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Erik Newsholme 
    To: NSRCA 
    Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:49 PM
    Subject: RE: Curious About Mid Air Collidions


    District 3 Andersonville, my first contest in Sportsman flying a Zen 120 in the third round.  In the previous 2 rounds I had pulled the loops too late and was told by the judge of the error.  So on this round I was going to get it right.  The flight was great and when I got to center position I pulled into the first loop, at the 90 degree point things were looking good till my plane went through Tony Stillman's new Panacea.  Both aircraft were lost.  My first midair ever in RC.  Shock set in, then to my surprise the guy I was flying against leant my his plane for the rest of the contest , which I won.  Tony also won on a borrowed aircraft.  

        What an introduction to pattern. 
       
        Came away with a Silhouette from the contest which got to fly in 2 more contests before being lost to radio interference.  But have a pair of Focus II's for the upcoming season.  

    Erik Newsholme
    bladesmith at mindspring.com


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      Sent: 2/13/2005 9:20:50 PM 
      Subject: Curious About Mid Air Collidions


      While talking pattern the question came up about how many mid air collisions there were in a season flying pattern.
      I thought I would post the question and possibly get an idea of the number from the your answers.
      At the contests that I attended in 2004 I counted four, let me know what contest you attended that experienced one.
      Buddy  
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