Hard to believe but my RV7 got hit my an excavator.
At the airfeild where my plane is based they were doing some constuction work. An excavator parked behind my aeroplane and the driver was talking to me while I preflight checked. I said he could come for a ride so he went to shut the machine down. He reached inside and accidently pushed a lever. The machine swung around and hit my rudder. As the aeroplane was not tied down and the tail wheel unlocked the plane swung away. As it swung the tailwheel reversed and this forced it against the rudder direction bending my rocket steering link.
Damage thankfully was a dented rudder and bent steering link.
I borrowed a rudder while I wait for parts to build a new one. I was flying again within a couple of days.
Peter
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At the airfeild where my plane is based they were doing some constuction work. An excavator parked behind my aeroplane and the driver was talking to me while I preflight checked. I said he could come for a ride so he went to shut the machine down. He reached inside and accidently pushed a lever. The machine swung around and hit my rudder. As the aeroplane was not tied down and the tail wheel unlocked the plane swung away. As it swung the tailwheel reversed and this forced it against the rudder direction bending my rocket steering link.
Damage thankfully was a dented rudder and bent steering link.
I borrowed a rudder while I wait for parts to build a new one. I was flying again within a couple of days.
Peter
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