How to wad your plank without flying it.

[madmax]

Okay, in an effort to stop everyone on the face of the planet from emailing, pm'ing and texting me over the now infamous incident at the Vegas Huckfest, I shall explain what happened.

I crashed my plane while someone else was flying it.

The flight started out on my 33% Edge, flown by the Shank Master himself, Jason Krause. Jason caught an deadstick during the flight during some high alpha stuff, and the edge dinged the dirt on the other side of the much villified chain fence at Bennett Field. The winds were about 20mph.

Sparing my bro the walk of shame, I want to shag the Edge. Stepping over the fence, I noticed the damage was minimal, and was isolated to a bent gear. I decided to pick the edge up, single handedly, and walk it back to the pits. Now, that's a little tricky in 20mph wings, I was kinda getting pushed all over the place. Little did I know however, that I was about to experience a modeler's worst nightmare.

When I came to the chain fence, I knew it was there, felt for it with my foot, found the chain with my foot, and the chain got caught on the top of my shoe. Well, when I moved my foot back, the chain came with it, released, and swung forward with magical timing, and met my foot as I stepped over. Next thing I know... WHAM. I'm on the ground and the now completely flattened out edge has my knee pushed entirely through the turtle deck...... Sweet. You know how you're always nervous when you have people in your shop, and around your planes, and worry that they'll step on your wheelpants, fuse, or possibly knock over a wing? Well, I did it folks! BE WORRIED!

I turn around and saw JK, Kyna, and other buds running my way thinking I broke my back or sumthin, and they helped me back to the pits. I was greeted by my 10 year old IMAC prodigy kid who cleaned my clock at a contest a few months back, performing a dramatic re-creation of my fall, and other FG friends revving up what turned out to be one of the memorable moments during the Huckfest. I was harrassed ALL weekend.

Final point tally:

Madmax's ego = 0
Website Fodder for the hatas = 9999

The plane was completely fixable in the proper hands, and worst case scenario, a fuse kit would fix the damage. I was approached by one member who offered to fix it, and having the desire to begin a new project (finally), I gave the airframe to him as he promised to put it back together, not sell it, and give it to someone at their local field who is getting into the hobby. The legacy of my edgy will live on.

With that, 'ol fumbilina is deserved of a public lambasting. Y'all have fun with this. I was given the "step on a chain, break your airframe" aka the "hangar rash delux" award by Sammy.



Enjoy -- MD

[66stang]

Max that sucks, but you took it like a man! Did Momo take it as well as you did?

[madmax]

yes, she got a chuckle.

[Mike Bargman]

Dude...we need to have Matus777 chime in on this one and tell his story...it's much worse than yours, so maybe it'll make you feel better....sorry about that bro. Sucks!

[Ken-H]

Max,

Bad way to lose a plane but very cool what you did giving away the plane. We'll have to make you some knee pads in the shape of an Edge "Maxipads". J/K Max, it still sucks.

Ken

[wizard]

Sounds like we need one of the electronic gurus to install gyros on Max to keep him vertical.

[madmax]

Sucks, not. Like I said, I have been looking for a new project, and this is a positive believe it or not. The edge is in good hands now, and shall fly again. Anyone else ball up a plane while on the ground?

[CSpaced]

Ouch man! I'm always paranoid about doing something like that.

The worst I had was a friend dropping his cell phone on my brand new stab. Punched a nice hole in it. It's composite , it has a stategically placed decal on it now

[DR10044]

Sorry for your bad luck. I was carrying mine to the van 1 time and the wind caught the canopy and sent it a flying. Busted the pilot out. I just cut out the whole floor of the canopy and left it out. Made the plane lighter! Lemons, make lemonade!

[ericb]

I ran over one of my planes on the way to get the one I just crashed.

[Wrench]

Had a friend of mine put his airplane down on the garage floor out of the way to clean the shop up. Problem was he forgot about it and walked out of the garage and hit the garage door closer. He came back out later to find his airplane crushed under the door.

[3ddd]

ssssssorry mahahahahahahahaahah --maxxxxxx hahahahahaa----really bro glad you weren't hurt any deeper than your pride