S_Owen
Senior Heliman
Location: Wichita Falls, TX.
| Does anybody else carry a first aid kit in their flight box, or is it just me? Obviously one of those kits can only do so much, but a tourniquet, and wound dressing, can save just enough time to save a life.
I try to keep safety number one in my mind, but it seems to be the first thing to go when you are having fun. I used to even carry a fire-extinguisher, but it got used on a Li-Poly planker that caught fire while charging, I guess I should get another.
I wonder how many lives have been saved just by the realization, and reaffirmation, of just how dangerous these little birds can be. That may be the one positive thing to come from such a tragic loss of life. |
or at least think he could...down at our field. He was so full of ****. He said he "specially engineered" ??!! some new blades to be stronger and better. Hell...he took solid steel and used a bench grinder to grind and angle on them and put those on his nexus .30. Plus for the tail pitch slider....he used card board and some CA to build a pitch slider. He never flew it though, plus no gyro. all he would do was idle up and hop up and down and laugh really loud and stuff...this guy was nutz man, he never took our advice on anything, just show up, start up his toys and talk **** then leave. We called his blades ginsu knives cuz we all hid when he was trying to 
