Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 14; Flight Crew Total 2193; Flight Crew Type 74
Deviation - Speed All Types; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Inflight Event / Encounter Object
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Evacuated
Airport; Human Factors
I landed into the wind with too much speed on a grass runway and attempted a go-around.  On climb-out; at about 6 feet AGL; the plane collided with an unseen; free standing; three inch diameter; 6'6'  high; steel; vertical pipe at the end of the runway. The S7S lost directional control and made contact with a tree.  The aircraft landed upright and was heavily damaged.  There were no injuries to my passenger or me.
The pilot of a homebuilt S7S aborted his landing on a grass runway due to excessive speed.  During the subsequent attempt to go around the aircraft struck a steel pipe and a tree.  Although there were no injuries to himself or his passenger the aircraft was badly damaged.