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03-31-2011, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
Posts: 2,967
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Awful...just awful.
Couple of flipped airplanes in this pic...looks like Tony Spicers' RV-3???
This is unbelievable...  
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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03-31-2011, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 250
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Audio from Avweb
Good description from person on the ground....marble size hail was seen.
http://www.avweb.com/podcast/podcast...w=RelatedStory
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Superior IO360 B1B 193 HP, Whirlwind 151-69"
IFR-Dual Cheltons, Crossbow NAV 425EX
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Ryan 9900B TCAS, WSI AV300, S-Tec 55X
Searey 80 HP
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03-31-2011, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Molalla, Oregon (KOL05)
Posts: 529
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Van's Staff OK...
A big storm, possibly including a tornado, slammed into the Lakeland
airport about noon today and did significant damage to many aircraft and buildings.
We have had several calls inquiring about our people. We appreciate the
concern and are happy to say we have been in contact with our crew at Sun N Fun (Scott Risan, Daryl Sahnow, Mitch Lock, Mike Seager, Gus Funnell, and Van) and they assure us they are unharmed. RV-10/N220RV and RV-7/N477RV were at the booth when the storm hit. The wingtip on the RV-7 has a small crack.
RV-12/N912VA (New Blue) was over at Plant City and was unharmed.
Thanks everyone for your concern. Please also let us know how we can help you.
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Joe Blank
RV-6
IO-320-D1A
Advanced Flight Systems
Van's Aircraft Inc. Technical Support-Retired
EAA Tech Counselor & Flight Advisor
www.westcoastravens.com
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03-31-2011, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Santa Maria, DF, Brazil
Posts: 7
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That's sad... 
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03-31-2011, 01:38 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 57
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Homebuilt Camping area
I just got off the phone with Pat Lee (RV-7), who is in homebuilt camping with Dave Vanderbit (RV-4). Their airplanes are unharmed and they are fine...just their tents blown down. Pat says there are about 20 experimentals there in "HBC". Three are upside down and some others damaged by flying debris. The RV next to his airplane was turned around, but OK.
One experimental, located in another area, still had the wing tiedowns still attached to the ground, but the wings were collapsed and the fuselage separated...not an RV.
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Dave Dollarhide
Dreamland Squadron
Haller Airpark, FL 7FL4
RV-4
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03-31-2011, 01:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Lancaster, PA
Posts: 144
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Wow... This SnF will definitely be remembered for a long time. Absolutely tragic :-( Glad to hear everyone is okay. Fixing aluminum is much better than fixing broken bones...
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Andrew
Lancaster, PA l RV-7 #3898 l Empennage l N627AB
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things" ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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03-31-2011, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 502
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Help/Transportation Available from ZPH
At around 11:30 and encouraged by light rain, I decided to depart SnF and head home (by car). The green clouds described earlier were ominous and from previous experience here, small tornados were iminent. I turned west onto I-4 at about 12:00pm and all **** broke loose. Traffic was essentailly a standstill I was VERY concerned about friends exhibiting and others in the campground. About 45 minutes later, I got a call from good friend Russ Lepre describing the scene. Russ was working the Zenith display with the group from Mexico MO. They lost their demo plane (the yellow and blue 750 in the first photo) and another builder was displaying the 801 that is standing on a wingtip. The Can Am's from Lockwood nextdoor were a tangled mess. Breaks your heart to hear about - even worse to see the photo. This just scratches the surface of the damage.
Thankfully, no one was hurt.
There is a large contingent of RV builders as well as other homebuilts at KZPH just a few miles northwest of LAL. If anybody needs a hand in the form of tools, manpower or a ride, let me know. There is a lot of help nearby.
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Carl Raichle
Lutz, FL
RV-9A N194CR
RV-14A Under construction
Based at KZPH
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03-31-2011, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Tuttle, Oklahoma
Posts: 2,563
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fl-mike
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Guys, I know there are other RV's in worse shape than mine but I am going to need to rebuild a left flap, possibly reskin a top and bottom left wing and not sure about a wing tip. That is all I could evaluate with the little time I had in trying to tie down again. If anyone can assist with materials to do that please email me. I am going to have to figure out how to get the plane back to OK.
For those speculating about the tie downs, the tie downs could not hold in the soil. It might as well been tied down in water for all the soil held.
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03-31-2011, 01:59 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Newport, TN
Posts: 7,496
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It might be easier to borrow someone's unflying but built wing...anyone got one ready to hang?
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03-31-2011, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Lancaster, PA
Posts: 144
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From an AOPA Article just published...
http://www.aopa.org/sunnfun/2011/110..._aircraft.html
"On the flight line, many homebuilt aircraft, which their owners had devoted thousands of hours building, were tossed like dry leaves. Tad ?Stripes? Sargent of Charlotte, N.C., saw the RV-7A that he had spent two-and-a-half years building tossed aside. It tumbled about 50 yards before coming to rest upside down.
?I had a lot of love in that airplane, and my 14-year-old son helped me build it,? he said. ?But it?s only an airplane and I?m so glad that no one was hurt.? Sargent is a member of TEAM RV, a formation flying group that brought a dozen airplanes to perform at Sun ?n Fun. In a display of the random nature of the destruction, other airplanes parked nearby were untouched."
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Andrew
Lancaster, PA l RV-7 #3898 l Empennage l N627AB
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things" ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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