 | George's Four star
after hitting a fence. The fence always wins! |
 | The trees are
always hungry! It eventually fell out of the tree. |
 | Don't try this at
home!. Many of us have had a "Close encounter of the evergreen kind" at our
field. It's a very unforgiving flying site. Yes, he did get the plane back with
only minor damage, and he's still flying it today. |
 | Jeff's P-38 after the second flight. He
flew too slowly on turn to final approach and tip stalled while flying the War
birds fly-in on April 19, 2008. Click on the photo to view it larger. |
 | We even have an UGLI
video! This is a reminder that this hobby can be
dangerous. Jeff Howard, one of our best and most experienced pilots was doing
touch-n-gos with his C-160 twin when the port engine died. Because he was at low
throttle for a landing, he didn't know the engine had died until he throttled up
to go around. The moment of impact is not shown because the photographer was
trying to get out of the way! The truck that the plane came to rest on was his.
Only minor damage was done to both the truck and the airplane. Click on the
picture to play the video. |
  | I was flying
at Berry College in Rome, GA when the wing separated from the fuselage. The
plane became a "Dirt Dart" and this is the result. This plane was later
rebuilt in Berry College colors (HERE) |
 | Another wing separation
crash. While on a low pass over the field, the right wing parted from the rest
of the plane. All Jeff could was watch helplessly while the plane continued
across the road, missed houses and cars, and crashed in the only vacant lot in
area. Jeff Howard is the luckiest unlucky guy in the club! |
 | Click on the image to view video of Jeff crashing a large scale F4U on landing. Very sad. |
| On the maiden flight after
takeoff the engine died forcing a deadstick. Upon landing it was coming
in too fast and when it touched down pilot error caused for it to flip
over breaking the rudder in 8 spots. Cause of dead stick too much back
pressure in the motor causing for it too overheat and shut off. This
was Matt's first ever pilot error crash in the 1 1/2 years he's been
flying. (Text supplied by the pilot)
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