<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> 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.<div> It was a nice clear day. Mike<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 4/1/13, Ed Alt <i><ed_alt@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ed Alt <ed_alt@hotmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dust Devil<br>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>Cc: "NSCRA Discussion List" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>Date: Monday, April 1, 2013, 6:06
PM<br><br><div id="yiv1524708200"><div><div>We get them too, with similar results. I figure it is often a thermal that develops a vortex that causes it.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Apr 1, 2013, at 7:03 PM, "Ron Hansen" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rcpilot@wowway.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=rcpilot@wowway.com">rcpilot@wowway.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv1524708200WordSection1"><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">This past Saturday we had a good crowd at the field.</p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">Then all of a sudden everything started flying all over the place.</p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">A 28 lb YAK was picked up about 6 ft in the air and dropped on the ground sustaining some pretty good damage.</p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">Numerous park flyers were damaged.</p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">Luckily I didn’t have my plane with me.</p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">I would assume this is a common problem for you folks down south and out west.</p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1524708200MsoNormal">I’ve
never seen this happen before.</p></div> <br>
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