>Some of you guys are
>pretty smart, I was the
>pilot and I was also
>the only person aboard. Being
>born country and raised country,
>I lacked the ability to
>fear man nor beasts and
>yes ultralight fixed wing aircraft.
>
>I bought the damn thing sort
>of. What I mean is
>I looked at one up
>in Mt Pleasant Utah and
>found that it had been
>unloaded in my yard a
>week later in the middle
>of the night with a
>note explaining that "I"was welcome
>and please send the check
>ASAP. Well who in the
>hell does something like that
>and expects a man to
>just accept It and then,
>to pay them? So after
>I had written the check
>and had some breakfast I
>called my brother to come
>help me assemble the thing-see
>he was a helicopter pilot
>in the marines and we
>we all no how helicopters
>are exactly like ultralights.
>Well my brother gets before and
>we go to work on
>this thing and before you
>know it I had the
>worst kinda luck you can
>imagine...everything went together without a
>single issue- like we'd done
>it a million times. Next
>thing I know I'm hauling
>butt down a dirt road
>that used to be the
>race track at the old
>rodeo grounds and then, just
>like the all of the
>times before, on youtube,
>the ultralight lifted into the
>air and I was flying
>(really, nobody was "flying" anything.
>The ugly truth is,
>while I may have been
>the only in the plane
>a pilot I was not!
>A passenger yes, pilot? No!)
>
>My best guess is that I
>was about 150' off of
>the ground when gravity showed
>its ugly head and proved
>her existance. I had an
>aluminum rod shoved through my
>leg and most of my
>teeth were bleeding and loose
>from grittingk my teeth in
>anticipation of the approaching ground.
>a
>After "landing" the plane finally came
>to a stop...then a bit
>later I came to a
>stop and then some more
>of the plane stopped-some of
>the plane I thought would
>never stop and some caught
>fire and had to be
>stopped by onlookers. Well I
> rawled from the wreckage
>and saw my wife running
>with my girls help me,
>at least I thought it
>was help, but then it
>hit me.... Her hand, it
>was hitting me, mostly in
>the face which was good
>cuz I had just fractured
>my skull in about 100
>places but regardless, when she
>sets her mind to do
>something she does it.
>Looking back on the event I
>can see a couple of
>areas that I could have
>been dealt with differently but
>then what would I post
>about if I had?
>
>Son
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. In fact, I'm cutting and pasting that story to an old pilot friend of mine!
Glad you made it through.
Todd
