Yeah, I still think of that every day, what a shame. 15 seconds earlier or later and I probably would have been just fine. There was a lot of history in that plane.
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 2:31 PM Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > N4DD had a very hard landing at Mt Vernon, "flown" by the owner at the > time, Myron Freeman. Your confusion is probably that both airplanes > were KR2's, similar in paint scheme. N4DD was completely destroyed, > N891JF was barely damaged. > > N357CJ is Joe Horton's plane. All he was saying is that his plane was > somehow picked up just flying over my incident, and apparently was > associated with the "crash" (forced landing in a Wisconsin bean/corn > field), which was Jim Faughn's N891JF plane that I put there after > sucking an exhaust valve and instant VW engine failure. Not much of a > "crash", I broke the prop and damaged the wheel pants and tailwheel, > mowed down 11 rows of corn at 60 mph, but didn't even scratch the paint > on the wings. I was trying to make a 3000' long grass strip after > climbing out from OSH, and I made it by gliding several miles, but when > I got there it was planted in corn, so given 15 more seconds of flying > time remaining, I chose the very short bean field that led to a > different corn field....with 7' tall corn. Not bad stuff to land in, in > hindsight..... > > Mark Langford > m...@n56ml.com > http://www.n56ml.com > Huntsville, AL > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ > ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
