[NSRCA-discussion] MID AIR COLLISIONS

[Ken Thompson]

Dang...that's gotta' hurt...sorry to hear about the planes.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hester" <kerlock at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] MID AIR COLLISIONS


> That was spectacular to say the least. Dean was cooking the box about wide
> open with the Black Magic (prototype with retracts, very fast) and was 
> just
> pulling into a humpty at the end of the box....darn near wide open.....
>
> Jim was coming down out of a stall turn, about to power up.
>
> BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!
>
> That was no glancing blow, that was instant obliteration. Jim's nomex
> Aggressor pretty much exploded into pieces and went straight down (right 
> on
> the poles BTW! in a 25+mph crosswind). Dean's Black Magic turned into
> something...like a fireworks explosion. Millions of tiny sparkling bits,
> drifting with the wind across the road into pattern plane neverland.....
>
> The last time I saw a mid air that explosive was about 5-6 years ago when
> Emory Schroeter and Mike Hare hit spinner to spinner wide open over the
> center pole at GMA.....
>
> Lotsa broken planes, but no broken spirits! BTW somebody actually has a
> picture of the debris cloud still in mid air. There is actually video
> somewhere of the GMA mid air....just can't find the person who has it.
>
> -Mike
>
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>
>> Jason has a post on RCU from tangerine, including some mid air aftermath
>> pics.  Let's just say that these light airplanes are pretty dramatic when
>> they hit!  I've never seen a plane turn into complete confetti at 150 
>> feet
>> above the ground before.  POOF.
>>
>> Genesis vs Diesel (Diesel won, but not by much)
>> Aggressor vs Black Magic V1 (All that was left of the BM was a lonely
>> retract in the Aggressor fuse)
>> Focus 2 RIP
>>
>> Expensive weekend!
>>>
>>> From: "R. LIPRIE" <RLIPRIE at centurytel.net>
>>> Date: 2006/12/11 Mon PM 06:32:37 EST
>>> To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>>> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] MID AIR COLLISIONS
>>>
>>> I herd that the had 2 mid air collisions and one crash at TANGERINE
>>> CONTEST.  IF anyone has any pics are knows the website that has the pics
>>> if you don't mind would you please send them too me i would like to see
>>> how the airplanes look.
>>>
>>> Matthew Liprie
>>>
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