Hangar Rash

SEVERE hanger rash...wing in one hand, fuselage under one arm, tail towards my back. Getting the apartment door open, trying to close it...kicking it closed with my foot. COMPLETELY closing it on the back half of the fuselage. CRUNCH!

Anyone top this? Dr.1 Driver "There's a Hun in the sun!"

Sorry, but IMHO I can easily top it with my stupidity. When the very first 1/3 scale EZ Christen Eagles came out, I had to have one- I think it was about 1987 or 88. I ordered one from the LHS and waited forever for it. Then I got the call- my $750 plane was there! I made the 100 mile round trip at night and met the owner at the shop and picked the plane up. Got home around ten pm or so and eagerly started unpacking the two very large boxes. I removed the fuselage and called to my wife to come look at this, it was truly a thing of beauty. As she walked in the room I removed the fuse from the box and held it up for her to see- suddenly WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK. Took me several seconds to realize I had just stuck my new pride and joy into the ceiling fan, which of course was going full blast....

Bill Davenport AMA 28141

You win!

A Cajun buddy of mine had just finished assembling an OK "Chipmunk" ARF and was running around his living room with it, in simulated flight, making appropriate airplane sounds.... Until he stuck it into the ceiling fan....

Cheers,

First solo flying session complete, and on the way home with a airplane in one piece. A first! One corner from home, my 100 lbs 20 gal air compressor tipped over in the back of the van, and crushed my plane.

Can't win, can't even tie. They keep changing the rules

Hi

A story I have told before in this NG.

I used to have a large(ish) chow-chow dog that came to work with me every day, when I owned a hobby store here in England.

I had been flying one weekend and the back of my van contained several models I was taking back to the store to be re-hung from the ceiling. Because the back of the van was full, Rusty the chow travelled on the front seat rather than his usual place in the back of the van.

Arriving at my store, I let Rusty out of the passenger side, then walked to the back of the van and opened the door to get my planes out

- Rusty promptly jumped in. Unfortunately, my instinctive reaction was to scream and yell obscenities at the dog, which frightened him so much he raced round the back of the van trying to avoid being grabbed

- trampling the planes underfoot (or rather underpaw)!!!!!

Then there is the time I ground to a halt building a Flair Puppeteer (more interesting projects took over my enthusiasm), but carefully preserved the fuselage - for a few years at it turned out - knowing I would eventually finish it. Finally, I took down my carefully preserved, uncovered, mint-condition fuselage from a shelf, blew the dust off it, carried it across my loft workshop to my building board - and stepped straight down the hatch access. I landed on the floor at the bottom of the ladder (around 8 feet) unhurt but clutching a mass of matchwood.

Regards

KGB

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LOL, I came close to a ceiling fan once, now my rule is (knock on wood) I turn off all the fans before moving models about. Personally, I have had a small ding or two happen to me over the years, however I know of several buddies who have never had the chance to inflict hangar rash to their airforce, their fingers are always glued to the building board:) rick markel

After maneuvering a 1/3 scale biplane in a small room the individual helping me decides he's going to step over the wing rather than go around the table to get out from behind it. Even after my pleas for him not to do so he did anyways, as he attempts to step over it he didn't lift his back foot high enough and catches it on the wing. He stumbles and kicks the wing, and the fuse. It was the scariest 3 seconds of my life, but other than beating it around there was no major damage.

At least you got it OUT of the box. I had just opened my foamie when the cat pounced on it...IN THE BOX!!!

I was just finishing up my first Midwest SuperStinker after a long time spent squaring up the wings (incidences top and bottom) when I heard BANG BANG BANG BANG. I found out that my 6 year old daughter was adjusting the leading edge of the top wing with a hammer! What really made me mad is that while I was fixing that, she used the lower wing to try to adjust the workshop table leg, also trashing the leading edge. She doesn't do that anymore.

Jim Branaum AMA 1428

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After building models for decades, I've come to the conclusion there exist what I term: "Ding & Dent Gremlins".

For example. Prepare a model for covering by sanding, filling, tac ragging, vacuuming, then carefully place the model on a soft bed in a spare, unoccupied room for the night. Lock the door and hide the key. Invariably the next morning the model will be all dented and gouged.

One day I'll set up a hidden camera to capture the carnage. "Who you gonna' call"?

Mike

Not my story, but I thought it worth preserving after I got up off the floor from laughing :

"For the birds", posted by Richard Emley in April of 2000.

"Got cockatiel from wife for anniversary..Size of Robin with 12" plus wingspan.and very sharp hooked beak.( never seen a bird fly so fast and in so many directions at same time). As he is only pet (not counting grandchildren) he gets all the attention.

Taught him to whistle theme from Andy Griffith,( Huge Mistake)...Anyway goes down cellar with me while working on latest creations F4U and Bf 109,( like warbirds.).......He is fascinated with wires, small screws and foam, gets excited when I say " want to go down stairs."

Well, theres one thing he likes better than life itself and thats the sound of his can-opener beak going through stretched Monocote. Could not for the life of me figure out what that "popping"sound was, was busy timing new engine...........Grabbed bird ( Moofasa ) in left hand and battery powered dremel w/sanding drum in right....

Still goes down cellar, ( can't say no ) but beak has 1/8 in. radius. He's happy and I'am happy, as he eats granulated food he has no trouble but I can detect a lisp in(Andy) now........Beak grows fast so watch closely...Cockatiels can live 15 years, good chance he'll be here after me so if you young rc'ers want a pal to go every where you go and do what you do give my wife a call, I know she'll throw in planes........"

Cheers, Fred McClellan the dash plumber at mindspring dot com

well the photos will tell the story.

first one is "some" of fire damage from neighbour's fire that moved to our house.

second one is of living room of my plane in rubble that included over

third is of completed plane. (belive it or not it came out straight!!)

had to build it without plans and replaced most of remaining wood.

lost it to screen door spring!!! well lets just say i have a spare wing in great condition.(i think ill build a profile fuse for it. i did fly it over 100 flights before its loss).

I had a giant scale Piper Cub with pontoons that I was flying from a lake in southern Ontario. If had a G23 gas engine. My family and myself, we were all on vacation, and most of the immediate family was sitting on the beach near the lake around a giant bonfire that my uncle made. I made a perfect water landing, then brought her in. The bolts that held the engine in place came off completely on one side, and I felt real fortunate that she came in in one piece. I picked up the plane to show it to my father and as I approached him, I tripped over a rope that was about 5 inches off the ground that was tied to a canoe. I fell flat on my face, tossing the plane right into the raging fire (with lots of gas still in the engine). Every bailed because they were afraid it would explode, and it did, about 10 seconds later, showering nearby trees with flames and igniting the foliage behind the beach. One tree caught fire, spreading fire to another, then another, until it reached our cabin and burned about half of the roof off. We sprayed the forest and cabin with water, and the firemen showed up a little later. We told them what happened and they just laughed at us. I was up in a tree so I could see the damage to the roof from above. We were lucky it was only this bad. Then the fire chief came up to the tree and started pulling on my leg, just like I'm pulling yours...

Sorry, I don't have any real stories so I just had to make something up!

I feel your pain. We call that crazy flying.

I have 4. I don't take them to the shop, but when I fiddle with stuff on the living rm floor, one must watch where they are. They do flee with a rapid fling of the hand.

Be careful with chemicals, especially volatiles. They have very sensitive respiratory systems.

-- Jim in NC

Hi

Which reminds me of another true story I have told before in this NG - slightly off topic, but I think worth repeating.

An extremely attractive, single, female, (alas just platonic) friend of mine - the double of a younger Goldie Hawne - was attempting an emergency repair to a pair of shoes by gluing the sole back on with a cheap tube of superglue.

She held the shoe in her lap, squeezed the tube and couldn't figure out where the glue was going to; eventually realizing that the tube had split, depositing the entire contents into her lap and firmly gluing her underwear to her pubic hair. After some wild panic she eventually managed to cut herself free with a pair of scissors.

When she later told me the story, she said that knowing my knowledge of glues through my building RC planes, she had seriously considered phoning me to help her out.

I replied that I would have been only too pleased to have rushed round and help her in her predicament - adding that I find chewing at hardened glue with my teeth to be the best way of removing hardened superglue. That apparently is why she didn't call me. 8^(

Regards

KGB

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Happened today, I was busy on the keyboard and not watching my African Grey parrot. She climbed down the cage and walked over to my recently finished Mr. Mulligan and promptly ate a hole in the side of it. I heard this strange crunching sound and hollered (expletive deleted). I now need to replace a couple of longerons and covering. EEEEEEECH!

Wonder if a parrot tastes like chicken?

Fill a large saucepan with boiling water, add the cockatoo to the boiling water using a rock tied to it's feet to hold it down. Cook on a rolling boil for at least 4 hours, and test with a fork. When the rock is soft, throw out the parrot and eat the rock.

Hope this helps, B

Built a Big Stik 40 ARF once I put it on my homemade CG machine to make sure it balanced correctly and promptly poked a hole in the ARFKote there's no matching iron-on for. I've also let falling screwdrivers poke holes in covering, and even had models slide off my workbench and break off cheek plates. However, I can't match W4JLE's parrot, hahaha!