KenRacer found his canopy on Parker...and I got to thinking about how many of us have lost stuff....and then found it some time later. What's your best lost and found story?

Mine? I lost my F-5 at Cajon Summit. It took me 3 weeks to find it... equalling about 9 trips... equalling about 18 hours of searching among the rattlesnakes and ticks. I still have that plane today and it flies...IT FLIES!!!

A local flier lost a combat wing out at Tick Point, and anybody who has searched for a plane there knows how thick the brush is down the hill. It's incredibly thick, and sometimes 6-7' deep, and loaded with ticks, poison oak, and raspberry crawlers.

Later, this guy modifies his "Mongo" 100" wing to carry a video camera. He put a joiner in the wing, and slid the wing apart to carry the camera, looking down between the wing halves. He'd fly the Mongo like that and make runs up and down the slope for months looking for the lost combat wing, and then look at the tape when he got home.

Eventually, he spotted something yellow waaay down the hill. He drew a map and noted some landmarks. he navigated his way down the hill and there was his combat wing- four years later. he charged up the battery and flew it. Fortunately it had landed upside down so all the rain of four winters had run off of it. He did recover it later, as the black Towerkote on the bottom of the wing had faded badly.

Me personally- I'm still wondering what happened to the 48" Razor I lost back in 1998.

Well, not plane related but - I lost the keys to my truck a couple of days ago but figured they must be around somewhere so did not spend any time looking for them until this morning. I finally found them still in the ignition with the ignition in the on position. Don't ask me how I left it in the on position because if I had, the truck would still have been running when I got out of it. The batteries were as dead as a door nail this morning. The starter solenoid would not even click. Will have to try the charger tonight. Hopefully they will still take a charge. But at least I found my keys!

I lost my mind, really never did find it again , think it went the same place I lost my last Jart
But then again we found that after 12 months or what was left of it DOH!!!

Originally Posted by slopeiron

Well, not plane related but - I lost the keys to my truck a couple of days ago but figured they must be around somewhere so did not spend any time looking for them until this morning. I finally found them still in the ignition with the ignition in the on position. Don't ask me how I left it in the on position because if I had, the truck would still have been running when I got out of it. The batteries were as dead as a door nail this morning. The starter solenoid would not even click. Will have to try the charger tonight. Hopefully they will still take a charge. But at least I found my keys!

Was their gas in it, ... seems you might have left it running, ... well until it runs out of gas.

Originally Posted by MicroRotors

Was their gas in it, ... seems you might have left it running, ... well until it runs out of gas.

Honestly, sounds like something I would do, but in this case I don't think so. The truck has a 12 valve Cummins in it and I would have heard it rumbling away in my driveway.

Back when I smoked a pipe I couldn't find it one day.

The wife pointed it out in the corner of my mouth.

mw

Originally Posted by steve wenban

I lost my mind, really never did find it again !!!

Sometimes, just sometimes, someone posts something, that really does make me...
laugh out loud

Phil.
lost it long ago - not expecting to find it anytime soon

Originally Posted by slopemeno

A local flier lost a combat wing out at Tick Point, and anybody who has searched for a plane there knows how thick the brush is down the hill. It's incredibly thick, and sometimes 6-7' deep, and loaded with ticks, poison oak, and raspberry crawlers.

Later, this guy modifies his "Mongo" 100" wing to carry a video camera. He put a joiner in the wing, and slid the wing apart to carry the camera, looking down between the wing halves. He'd fly the Mongo like that and make runs up and down the slope for months looking for the lost combat wing, and then look at the tape when he got home.

Eventually, he spotted something yellow waaay down the hill. He drew a map and noted some landmarks. he navigated his way down the hill and there was his combat wing- four years later. he charged up the battery and flew it. Fortunately it had landed upside down so all the rain of four winters had run off of it. He did recover it later, as the black Towerkote on the bottom of the wing had faded badly.

That's an awesome lost and found! Such a lot of effort for a combat wing.

On our annual NYE camping trip I took my Jart V for a fly off the dunes. The flight was very short. after 5 mins or so I think the batteries went flat and she raced at what seemed a millin mles an hour way over the back of the dunes. I had a look for it but no luck.

363 days later I was flying off the same dunes, when I landed,(broke), my last plane I decided to go for a walk. Up the first dune, nothing, then scrub bashed to a higher one. and then what did I see? a small red tail sticking out of the scrub! then followed 40 mins of bashing crashing and flailing through trees, scrub and ferns. even found a hawk nest with chicks in it. Smiling a scratched I walked on the beach with my long lost jart!

and would you belive that some of the electronis still worked?!

I love the spider , ... was it dead or alive.

Also, ... you son looks a little bummed that you found it.

Bill

Egads! That's a nice sized spider. Any idea what he is? Not a Funnel Web is it? Glad you got your plane back.

I lost my Bee, and found it in someone's closed garage.
Story here. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...ostcount=13665

ian

I lost my sunglasses at the bottom of one of our slopes. One year later I was on top of the slope and saw something shining at the bottom. I walked down and found my lenses about a foot apart, but no frames.This was in Telluride . Very weird