Video: Crash bang wallop! Copter down

Paul Maloney

Regular visitors to the site will be familiar with Paul Maloney’s brilliant aerial videos of the town that we’ve shared here.

Paul uses a remote control helicopter to capture superb HD-quality video of Stone and other places, often flying from Westbridge Park. On Sunday, however, he got into a spot of bother after his helicopter crashed into a tree about 30ft up at Westbridge!

Paul appealed for help on A Little Bit of Stone’s Facebook page and eventually managed to dislodge his copter “after about three hours and tying together about 30 sticks”.

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Here’s Paul’s footage of the accident…

And here’s the Facebook appeal on Sunday…

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