{"id":114,"date":"2004-01-11T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:40:34","slug":"come-fly-the-friendly-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Come fly the friendly skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took the plane out today, despite the 20 degree weather. The first flight was in pretty high wind and ended badly – I had to replace the propeller and spinner. On the last flight, we discovered that the plane will actually take off from the ground, and does not have to be thrown – probably due to the wheel I added to the back of the plane.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the last flight went pretty well until I got a little too close to the trees. A 1000 x 1000 foot field isn’t all that big when you’re going 30 miles an hour! If you like, you can watch the video<\/a>, or download<\/a> it and watch it later.<\/p>\n

As you’ll hear in the video, the engine noise made Mechel upset. He also cried when the plane crashed. Its OK Mechel!<\/p>\n

I realized I was in trouble when I saw the left wing go behind a tree branch (below). I tightened up the turn, but I was too far into the trees and hit another tree 25 frames (0.8 seconds) later.<\/p>\n

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Living up to it’s name, the DuraPlane survived the 40 foot fall unscathed. <\/p>\n

Mechel helped me clean up the plane and posed with me for a victory shot:<\/p>\n

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I’m looking forward to next Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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