{"id":236,"date":"2015-06-05T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-06-05T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:00:57","slug":"how-to-get-an-airplane-out-of-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/how-to-get-an-airplane-out-of-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get an airplane out of a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

I successfully retrieved my Liebelle glider from the top of a 30 foot tall tree. I recommend this method over pulling the plane down through the tree with string.<\/p>\n

Here are the supplies:<\/p>\n

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  1. Extendable painter’s pole<\/strong> (23 foot available at Homedepot<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. A tall drinking cup<\/strong> to capture the glider’s forward fuselage<\/li>\n
  3. Duct tape<\/strong> to connect the mug to the pole<\/li>\n
  4. A helper<\/strong> to grab the plane off the pole<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The requirements were specific. I didn’t want to destroy the plane. The tree was too small to climb; the plane was in the top branch. The solution was to lift the plane out vertically with the pole.<\/p>\n

    \"Start\"<\/a>

    Maneuvering the pole to connect the fuselage into the cup<\/p><\/div>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \"IMG_2133\"<\/a>

    Lifting the plane<\/p><\/div>\n

    \"IMG_2134\"<\/a>

    Success!<\/p><\/div>\n

    Lessons learned:<\/p>\n

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    1. Some fields are even too small for 1.1 meter DLG flying<\/li>\n
    2. My distance\/height estimation was not tuned to a 1.1 meter glider. I flew it directly into a tree… CFIT (controlled flight into terrain<\/del> tree)<\/li>\n
    3. Maneuvering a 8 to 24 foot pole up through tree limbs is not easy. I was lucky to have a small and sparsely branched tree.<\/li>\n
    4. Lifting the plane once connected was trivial and easy.<\/li>\n
    5. My helper was useful to support the pole and plane on the descent. This become necessary once the pole was angled.<\/li>\n
    6. Non destructive tree retrieval is feasible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I successfully retrieved my Liebelle glider from the top of a 30 foot tall tree. I recommend this method over pulling the plane down through the tree with string. Here are the supplies: Extendable painter’s pole (23 foot available at Homedepot) A tall drinking cup to capture the glider’s forward fuselage Duct tape to connect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}