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Re: Plane giveaway number - 1

Subject: Re: Plane giveaway number - 1
by KiwiKid on 2009/5/2 21:50:08

Well, I’m not known for crashing, so I haven’t got much material, but there was this one time with my Skyhawk. Now, to most right thinking people this would not really be that funny, but we are dealing with RC people so the normal rules don’t apply. Some of my so called flying buddies thought this was the funniest thing they had seen in a long time. Once they got up off the ground, dried their eyes and said how sorry they were for me I felt a bit better.
Anyway, I was flying my Skyhawk down at the park doing a video shoot. I had moved from my usual park as there were a couple of magpies there who were always scene stealers whenever I tried to do a vid. I was bringing my Skyhawk in for a landing and overshot the landing ground - normally I would have just bitten the bullet and landed long as I was getting low on juice. But, pride comes before a fall and I wanted to get a landing at my feet for the vid.
So went around again and a couple of birds appeared out of nowhere and proceeded to attack the Skyhawk. I looked at them for a second and the Skyhawk (which is a bit twitchy at slow speeds) rolled over and dove for the ground, just managed to pull her out with full throttle and full up elevator and it came whistling overhead whereupon I lost orientation on it and it rolled over again. Didn’t get off so lucky this time as it was too low and the fan takes a couple of seconds to spool up. Big splat. On the positive side, got it all on vid - copy below. Note the two batteries exiting the fuse and taking the canopy with them in the slo-mo shot.
Despite the unfortunate sound at the end of the vid I do not get off on crashing planes.
Had it all back together again in two nights work.

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