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Originally posted by piker
Colin,
I was alway impressed too with how well the Rascal can handle the wind for a lightly loaded model.
Your accomplishment of going home with everything in one piece reminded me of my early days of flying. I still remember the feeling of doing so. It was a rare event indeed!
When my brother and I would go slope soaring we wouldn't go home until it was time for repairs.
Even now, it's still a good feeling to be able to leave a fun fly without carnage of some sort.
Robert
CARNAGE ... I like that! [

] I had a bit of "CARNAGE" last Wednesday when I made a two inch hole in the ground on account of trying to fly a massively tail heavy (and too HEAVY in general I might add) foam Sukhoi and subsequently augering it in from about twenty feet!
The thing was so tail heavy (manual came with the wrong CG location) that it was UNCONTROLLABLE. It also didn't help that it was blowing about 25 km at the time either. (Not the best weather to be maidening a plane, much less a tail heavy one! [

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However it is EPP and after picking up some "pieces" was able to put her back together to its original state and came back out on Saturday with the correct CG. Had a couple of amazing flights with this overpowered BRICK. (It has an AXI 2820 in its nose powered by a 4 cell lipo putting out about 337 watts! [:I]) But then as is often the case ... got cute on the last flight ... a gust (maybe about 35 km?[}:)]) blew it behind my back, over my head over the flight line (ooops!) ... I totally lost orientation and augered it in AGAIN ... HARD.
Needless to say there was an explosion of foam this time but the important stuff (Lipos, motor esc etc) were fine. The impact was so hard though that I cracked the spinner's back plate! In any event, long story short ... its now back together and looks as if that crash never happened. (Ahhh ... the magic of a hot glue gun and foam.) [

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So we're waiting for the next "outing". Maybe Wednesday? [

] Can ya tell that I don't have that much emotional attachment to this "practice" plane? hee hee!
So there ... CARNAGE INDEED! [

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Colin.
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Three things are certain ... Death, Taxes and CRASHIN'!
