[NSRCA-discussion] MID AIR COLLISIONS

[R. LIPRIE]

Mike if you find the person who has the video please send it to me...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R. LIPRIE" <RLIPRIE at centurytel.net>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] MID AIR COLLISIONS


> sounds like a money burning weekend.  I just about had a mid air at 
> crescent city contest.  I was on a stall turn and apparently he was on a 
> vertical climb and my wheels and his wheels were about 4 or 5 inches 
> apart.  Very scary finally i stopped and stalled made it out alive. 
> Somehow me and him ended up on the same side of the field.lol.
> ----- 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <vellum2 at bellsouth.net>
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>> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] MID AIR COLLISIONS
>>
>>
>>> 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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