[NSRCA-discussion] Dust Devil

[Peter Vogel]

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico.  Dust devils were a common occurrence.
 We learned fast to not leave toys, etc. out in the yard lest they get
launched through a living room picture window by a dust devil :-(  I think
my butt still hurts from the spanking I got...

Peter+


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:13 PM, mike mueller <mups1953 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  We had it happen about 6 years ago at the St Charles Illinois pattern
> contest. Bobby had just landed and I was retrieving his plane on the
> runway. A dust devil twister came by and picked his Temptation off the
> strip about 10 feet high and planted it nose down. It then came into the
> pits and took a canopy up about 30 feet and over the cars in the parking
> lot.
>  It was a nice clear day. Mike
>
> --- On *Mon, 4/1/13, Ed Alt <ed_alt at hotmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ed Alt <ed_alt at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dust Devil
> To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Cc: "NSCRA Discussion List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Date: Monday, April 1, 2013, 6:06 PM
>
>
> We get them too, with similar results.  I figure it is often a thermal
> that develops a vortex that causes it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 1, 2013, at 7:03 PM, "Ron Hansen" <rcpilot at wowway.com<http://mc/compose?to=rcpilot@wowway.com>>
> wrote:
>
> This past Saturday we had a good crowd at the field.
>
>
>
> Then all of a sudden everything started flying all over the place.
>
>
>
> A 28 lb YAK was picked up about 6 ft in the air and dropped on the ground
> sustaining some pretty good damage.
>
>
>
> Numerous park flyers were damaged.
>
>
>
> Luckily I didn’t have my plane with me.
>
>
>
> I would assume this is a common problem for you folks down south and out
> west.
>
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>
> I’ve never seen this happen before.
>
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