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Friday, April 29, 2011
Stuff Flying Through The Air; some funny, some tragic
7 comments:
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Genghis Khen said...
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What in the world is that thing? It's totally awesome!
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4/29/11, 12:37 PM
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Tony said...
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I was at a Jets-Patriots game at Shea Stadium back in the late 70's and during half time, they had a model airplane RC club put on a show. One of the "planes" was a flying lawn mower. Now, If you have ever been in Shea Stadium in December, you know the winds are pretty bad and swirl quite a bit. Well, that damn lawn mower crashed right into the upper deck. Next thing we see is the medics with a guy on a stretcher. He died the next day. It was the only NFL game I ever went to.
NOBAMA 2012 -
4/29/11, 1:33 PM
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molonlabe28 said...
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Except for a little flooding (for the 2d time in 2 months), our home in Knoxville was spared, but our neighborhood was badly hit (all property damage and not personal injuries, but a remarkable amount of property damage).
In the scheme of things, we were quite blessed and we are grateful.
For reasons which are not entirely clear to me, no one seems to be game for any looting or general marauding.
It's a shame, though, because I could really use a new flat screen HD television.
My prayers go out to the good people of Alabama in this tragedy. -
4/29/11, 2:02 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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tony - how in hell did I miss hearing about that? Or did I hear and forgot? Looked it up.
"On December 9, 1979, as part of the halftime show of an NFL game between the New York Jets and New England Patriots, a model airplane group put on a remote control airplane display. The grand finale was a red 40-pound lawnmower. Its blade flew into the stands hitting John Bowen of Nashua, New Hampshire. Bowen died six days later." Wikipedia -
4/29/11, 2:23 PM
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Tony said...
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Rodger,
I was 17 at the time, I went with a friend and his mom and dad, his dad worked for Pan-Am and we had seats on the fifty about 10 rows up. I don't remember much about that game except it was cold as hell, and the Jets won on a late drive. But I can swear the entire lawn mower went into the stands, not just the blade.
I also went to a local minor league game on Long Island a few years back where they were shooting balled up T-shirts from an air gun. someone in the upper deck reached for one and fell to the lower deck. died too. I gotta stop going to sporting events..lol
NOBAMA 2012 -
4/29/11, 2:53 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Hey Tony, that's also how Maude Flanders died, "Maude was killed by a t-shirt cannon at the Springfield Speedway when Homer ducked at the last second to pick up a bobby pin. She was knocked off the grandstand and her rescue was prevented as Homer had parked in the ambulance zone, impeding their rescue attempt."
olds-mo-william -
4/29/11, 4:12 PM
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Anonymous said...
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This falls into the category R/C airplane enthusiasts call a "Flying Brick". In model flying, the power-to-weight ratio is so good that you can pretty much make anything fly. (In case anyone didn't notice, that was not a real lawnmower and I doubt the one at the NFL game was either.) I once saw a flying dollhouse and I am sure that modelers have built and flown many other improbable objects.
I am also glad that you are relatively unscathed, Jodi. My prayers go out to you and your neighbors.
GrinfilledCelt -
4/29/11, 7:07 PM
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