Curious About Mid Air Collisions

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

I have witnessed 6 in my 35 years, and only four of those in  Pattern. One 
was last year at the Nats where I was judging F3A.
 
One of those non-pattern "events" happened to me way back when I was a pup.  
Some little flitting dart went through the outboard section of the  Telemaster 
wing. I was helping a guy fly the Telemaster when zip---1/3rd panel  gone. 
The Telemaster flew quite well on 2/3rds of a wing landing without  further 
incident. The dart came through nearly without a scratch.
 
One of the Pattern mishaps happened about 4 yrears ago at the D3 DC at Ron  
Van Putte's field. The models looked like they barely touched one another. Yet  
when Lamar brought his down his wing tube was bent quite severely. It 
surprised  me how much damage for how slight a touch. These models pack terrific 
energy  when in full flight
 
MattK
 
 In a message dated 2/14/2005 3:24:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
rcaerobob at cox.net writes:

Yeah,  Bryan - what's the common denominator, here?  Could we form an  
un-correlated hypothesis about "reasons mid-airs occur" ????    
<VBG>

BOb P.
> 
> From:  <brianyemail-nsrca at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2005/02/14 Mon PM 03:05:23  EST
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: Curious About Mid  Air Collidions
> 
> Keith....you have actually witnessed all these  mid airs?
>  
> I have seen 4 in 15 years flying, and 2 were  mine.
>  
> 
> Keith Black <tkeithb at comcast.net>  wrote:
> > #7. Mid air in Nederland
>  
> Mike,  you're correct, that is another I was present for. Seems like there 
are still  others I've forgotten.
>  
> BTW, the "fellow from LA" said  he had been involved in three (I think) mid 
airs at Nederland. I don't think  he'll be back.
>  
> Revised List (in order):
>   
> 1. Brian Young & Bobby Zikes - planes totaled - Dallas 
>  2. Lance Van Nostrand & Ron Bar - planes saved - Hot Springs
> 3.  Mark Hunt & David Cotton  - planes totaled - Temple (I think)
>  4. BW Ponder & Sean McClain - planes totaled - NATS
> 5. Nat Penton  & "fellow from LA" - one plane totaled, one moderate damage, 
repairable  -  Nederland, TX
> 6. Gray Fowler &  Paul Villarrubia -  planes saved - Dallas
> 7. Keith Black & Art Wagner - planes totaled  - Hot Springs


 
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