In the late 70's/early 80's at one of the early Visalia Fall Soaring Festivals at the high school site, Don Doe (past NCSL Champion) was flying a Paragon on yellow and white, a frequency that was also an emergency CHP channel. Suddenly during a nice flight well above launch height Don lost control of the plane. It came all the way down in a series of spirals and dives finally disappearing from sight when it dove into a large drainage ditch with a ten foot berm on both sides, and near a culvert under a road that bordered the field. Don started walking to retreive the werckage when suddenly to everyone's shock and awe the Paragon appeared in a near vertical climb ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD. Don regained control and landed the plane safely. Unbelievably, the plane had flown through the culvert (I remember that it was about 12' diameter) without hitting anything. Mike Clancy RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
