I'm not a fan of publishing anyone's not so perfect moments. Not even for the sake of storytelling. But in this case.....
In cruising some of the R/C community websites, the uncontrolled portion of flight transition between ground and air often has its own page to honor the event. I think it might be a right of passage maybe?
These are to honor the events. No one was hurt. All of these aircraft, except one, flew later in the day. And the one that didn't, I'll bet flew the next day. Or could have. I did not hear one foul word. Didn't see any tears. What fun.
The biggest surprise I found, photography wise, was getting something in the photo to give scale and reference. This is the first is a sequence of three where the aircraft eventually is half under water. It didn't end well. But I like the positioning with the person. You can still tell, there will be no miracle pull out.
A lot of the aircraft are not as I would remember. I expected gas engines on all, hours of build wood frames. Times change. Engines changed from gas to electric. Building materials went from wood to plastics.
I didn't witness this next scene. I was late. Is the right side up aircraft just to the scene early? Coincidence. Maybe so, but I didn't see any pit fights.
This next aircraft is more of a flying boat. No pontoons or low hung engines. This one had a gas engine. This was actually more of a successful landing, but unsuccessful high speed taxi. Looks like bad timing between a turn to the right, a breeze from the left and some chop. Result, a buried nose.
This was a take off that didn't succeed. A lot more violent water action with the increased speed and higher prop rotation.
Again, no aircraft was really hurt, every pilot walked away with a story. And a photo.
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