On one of the nightly airplane outings during the Grubbs family reunion, Uncle Mack decided it was time to give some amatuers some time behind the control. Great idea, right? Well it was, until his plane landed here....(if you make the picture bigger you can see a small spot of red in the top of the tree....that's Mack's plane)
Of course it happened right before dusk, so runners were sent to gather the necessary supplies: a spotlight, flashlights, and a fishing pole...
The idea was to cast a weight around the plane and tug it out of the tree. Great in theory, but after 1 1/2 hours of trying it we were on to idea number #2, throwing a tennis ball with fishing line attached to it up over the plane and hoping to tug the plane out of the tree. After several tries, and many, many yards of tangled fishing line, Camron and Brandon successfully rocked the branches enough to knock the plane loose. What an adventure....and great lesson in flying, steer clear and I mean
really clear of any and all trees!
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