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Ok, I've received the waffle mark before after dinging my head on the back side of a full sized Cessna wing but I had never been stabbed by a Mig-29 pitot tube until today. Bumbling by my model shelf this morning I grazed the nose of the 1/48 Mig-29 which inserted the pitot tube into my arm before breaking off. Repairs are underway on the Mig and I was only slightly wounded. Beware when walking around the flight line!
Max
Hmmm.
So that's why I had odd oilcanning on my J-4s wing bottoms . Hmmm. T.B.
Ouch---at least it didn't shoot or launch a missle at you.
Request a Purple Heart from FSM for wounds suffered by enemy action.
Heh - when I was in my late teens, I was busily looking at one R/C aircraft at a local college when I turned and literally walked into a wingtip of a full size glider. That left a mark on my forehead for a couple of hours.....
You didn't heed the REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT flag?
Witth the F-106 it was not uncommon for someone to walk into the trailing edge of the wing tip. That will leave a gash at least to your head and cause the safety people their own headaches.
Those 1 to 1 scale jobs can do some damage.
Thing Is;
Whose going to put " Remove Before Flight " flags on a Piper's wings ? That would be like putting an airbag in a Baker Electric Automobile from 1918 . T.B.
or airbrakes on my wife's 1972 Honda Coupe.
or a catylitic converter on a Model T.
Be thankfull the pitot heat was not on!
Man you want war stories about getting burned with the pitot heat or taking a AIM 120 fin across the head, taking a breaker bar to the head while pumping up the JFS (jet fuel starter) accumulator on the F-15 I have them....
Does everyone here know the difference between a "war story" and a "fairy tale"? A Fairy tale starts out "once upon a time" while a war story starts off "No sh*t, this really happened".......
Kevin
We live in fame or go down in flame.
Viejo You didn't heed the REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT flag?
Sounds to me like SOMEONE neglected to install the RBF flag. But we won't mention any names, right MAX?
Coulda been worse; you could have stepped in front of a full size A-7 with the motor running and SHWOOOOP! That woulda been all she wrote.
In a related story, my wife was at Edwards AFB when a "clueless" person walked in front of a running F-16 and suffered the aforementioned SHWOOOOP. Only thing that saved him was getting caught on that brace that bisects the intake. Unfortunately, the brace did not stop the supersonic emptying of all his pockets and the F-100 engine was destroyed. Oops.
Makes me miss Rex. He described all the ways to cut yourself wide open on A-4s.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
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