Scott Reed
Senior Heliman
Location: Southern California
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Just One Of Those ThingsIt's not like it's a conspiracy, It was just an unfortunite series of events....and ALL were different !!
Jacks 145 sufferes from SEVERE ground resonance, and it beat itself up pretty badly, but will fly again.....
Tims Super Puma is going through some teething problems with the retracts and such, and suffered some very minor cosmetic damage, and some dislodged formers, but knowing Tim, is most likely already repaired......
Brians Dauphin just ran out of fenestron thrust, and got into a bad situation, and though the impact left us all thinking it was totaled, it turns out it too was not bad. Main rotorhead and blades were toast, but the rest is largely cosmetic, and Brian said he'd have it ready for further testing very soon......
A beautiful Bell 230 (i don't know who owns it or what brand it was) in PHI colors went in VERY HARD, and looked to be totaled to me, but i never found out why that one went in.....
Peters 300 was shot down by an idiot flying in a field across and down the street from the field. The plane was seen flying about the time Peters 300 went out of control, but when clubmembers went to confront the dude, they were unable to find him.......
A Bell 47 was crashed due to disorentation, i don't know how bad it was, i did'nt see it afterwards, and i don't know who's it is or what kind it was......
My own 222 suffered a stripped servo (for the retractable landing light) when i botched the landing in one of my contest rounds....I stuck the landing fairly aggressively half on and half off the pad, and the light took the hit, and stripped the drive servo for it.......It is already been repaired and put away, with a new gear set, and a thorough checkup, and nothing else was found........
I think thats it, at least, thats all i can remember........Yes, it was a tough wknd. as far as attrition is concerned, but it's not the whole picture.....there were HUNDREDS of flights flown in total without incident !!
As allways, Circumgyration is the best of the best in the US, and this year was no different, it was a blast, it brings out the best in all the pilots. The flying and the level of beauty in the models was raised from last year, and the number of turbine powered models flown at CG continues to grow 
regards, Scott Reed |
