Let's See Your In flight shots

[benjack71]

Maiden of my 30cc Skyraider from 2014. The flight went good. The landing not so much. Tore the retracts off, but it was quickly repaired and the Century jet retracts proved they were tough as nails. I got two more flights out of that plane, then at our Fall Fly-in it died. In another post I said how you should never imo use one battery for ignition and receiver/controls. Well I am convinced that was the culprit that killed this plane. The destruction was massive, so I have no actual proof if the receiver (Spektrum 8) was indicating brown out/loss of signal because the battery was separated from it. At first I thought it was a high speed stall. It just lost all control and tipped over. It was rather windy that day, but that plane weighed right at 20 lbs. I think the ignition caused interference and when the receiver went, the fail safe pulled the engine back and in that wind it just pushed it over, nose straight no recovery death spiral. I did have pictures of the "death roll" as she was spiraling to her death. Unfortunately I cant find them. They might be at home on another drive.

[Prowler901]

WV - I love that Navy Cub! She looks amazing.

Ben - Did you recover from the gear failure? Looks like your doing a go-around. So did you belly land after that?

Todd

[benjack71]

WV - I love that Navy Cub! She looks amazing.

Ben - Did you recover from the gear failure? Looks like your doing a go-around. So did you belly land after that?

Todd

No, there was no recovery. It actually killed the engine and broke the prop, although you cant tell that the prop is broke in the pic. But, the prop and the bombs and gear coming out was the only real damage. I soldered the wiring back on the gear. Repaired the bombs with epoxy and put a new prop on it and it was good to go. It was just a dumb mistake. Nervous, wind started blowing. All I could think was got to land this plane got to land this plane. I "forced" it down. Lesson learned.

[Prowler901]

Gotcha. I've found myself in that same situation or "get-down-itis". Never a good thing.

[benjack71]

Gotcha. I've found myself in that same situation or "get-down-itis". Never a good thing.

Get-downitis. Ha. I like it

[boomer108]

We used to call it get homeitis when I was flying with the Air Force. Never a good habit to get into.

[Prowler901]

Yes, in the Navy GetHomeItis lead to normally smart pilots making silly decisions like wanting to fly the "hangar queen" off the carrier at the end of deployments. :o

[XF-15DCC]

Does this count

[Dewey H Lee]

It ain't flying but it's in the air😒. I'd say yes. Hope you got it down okay.😃

[CloudRider]

Does this count

Seems close enough to me ;) good luck fishing it out safely!

[XF-15DCC]

It ain't flying but it's in the air😒. I'd say yes. Hope you got it down okay.😃

Nope, I think it will be there until the tree grows around it. The wind last night moved it. I can't find one wing and now it is pitched nose down. I think the gear is stuck where ta branch splits.

Kevin

[OV10]

OV10, if I ever get a B-25 it is getting converted. ;)

Hello Prowler,
Because of your good eyeballin on that PBJ-1, the reason to convert my LX is now becoming reality. Here's the "new" nose art I have coming from Callie !!

[Prowler901]

That's gonna be awesome! I look forward to seeing that.

[TiredIronGRB]

Sorry not an in flight but a post bad flight...

[Pauly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul5ck15JOdg
You just have to see this! A B29 X-1 combo, but just watch this guy fly the B 29, remember its a twenty foot wingspan.
BTW, love the announcer. One of the few videos that gave me a fright!

Grossman56

The late Jerry Clower on the intercom

[TSHobbies]

how bout a halfer ..one foot on the ground one in the air lol...that was a Michael Knight landing

[crxmanpat]

Some recent ones from a few weekends ago.

[wvrailfan]

Very nice!

[Aros]

There are some really nice in-flight shots in here! Well done!

I used to fly with a buddy who was a pro photographer so I always was so happy when he would take some in-flight shots of my birds. I haven't had many shots taken in recent years...These are about five years old or so...

[Prowler901]

Wow! He took some really amazing shots. Must have been a nice camera too.