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frank.goodnight(at)att.ne
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:03 pm    Post subject: lessons learned Reply with quote
lazy & complacent , I was both ,also lucky because no harm was done.
I was practicing off airport landings , landed on a dirt road along
the side of
a field that farm equipment uses to service the field. On one side of
the road there was a ditch
with tall weeds, on the other side the crop. From the ditch to the
field is about 20 ft , the road
is dry but the
field is muddy and wet so you really have to pay attention. when I got
ready to take off my
left wingtip is even with the side of the ditch, with the tops of the
weeds about a foot under the wing tip.
150 or 200 ft down the road there was a clump of weeds that looked a
little higher
than the rest but I didn't think anything of it , when I took off I
thought the clump lightly
brushed the wing tip. everything is fine, until at about 1000 ft I
happened to notice that the
fabric under my left wing is flaping in the breeze. I slowed down to
40mph found another
spot and landed. The fabric under the wing about 21/2 ft inboard from
the tip was slit
like it had been cut with a knife from the front spar to the rear
spar. I have a small tool box
on the plane with some things I think I mite need , a roll of 2in
gorilla tape was good for a temp
fix.
-------- lesson learned----- before taking off when I,m not at an
airport, I will walk my takeoff
run. If anything looks even slightly unusual I will check it out
before going.

Frank Goodnight
firestar 2
brownsville , TX

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:01 pm    Post subject: lessons learned Reply with quote
<?xml:namespace prefix="v" /><?xml:namespace prefix="o" /><![endif]--> Hey, Frank...Ya done good! pilot and airframe survived another experience... BRAVO!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:54 pm    Post subject: lessons learned Reply with quote
In a message dated 11/2/2009 10:03:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, frank.goodnight(at)att.net writes:
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The fabric under the wing about 2 1/2 ft inboard from the tip was slit like it had been cut with a knife from the front spar to the rear spar. I have a small tool box on the plane with some things I think I mite need, a roll of 2in gorilla tape was good for a temp fix.

Frank,

That was the perfect fix. Even better than bailing wire! [img]http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/0201d20638/02[/img]
Bill Varnes
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:00 am    Post subject: lessons learned Reply with quote
That's exactly how I learned to roll a quicksilver. T post in tall grass
jammed the aileron. Falldowngoboom.
George

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