Post by duck on Oct 13, 2008 22:53:36 GMT 1
Oopsy, I didn't mean to do that.
Seems to be the word of the day today
It was a beautiful morning to fly this morning, so I did. It was a bit chilly, though only +3C (37F).
After just replacing the firewall and gear box from last weekends goof ups.
I was doing really well, until I got stupid.
I had several Succesfull paved ROGs and landings on the first pack, and even managed to miss all the trees and poles in the parking lot. First time flying off of pavement.
The second pack seemed down a bit on power, but it still ROG'd in 10 feet at 3/4 throttle. The breeze was picking up a bit, it made for nice short takeoffs.
It was calm when I got there, but as always as the sun comes up so does the breeze.
It was actually quite thrilling to be handling a fair breeze with no problem staying over the field. The extra throttle use did cut flight times a bit though.
I got carried away, did something stupid and crashed it again. hard, this time.
Stupid me decided to try a few aerobatics over the grassy part of the field. The loops were going well, except the breeze pushed me off line. Once again it was the inverted part that got me.
I'm developing quite a talent for flying into the ground straight, level, and upside down.
Tore the gear box off the firewall, smashed the cowl, Broke both blades off the prop, blew the battery box out the bottom, and broke the fuselage from battery box to wing on one side. Didn't damage the wing or tail at all
Got to remember to buy an aileron plane before i try any more inverted stuff.
But first I need a new fuselage, cowl, firewall, gearbox, and prop. But at least I didn't break the tail off again
Whee, this is so much fun.
Sure am glad I bought a foamie, instead of spending weeks or months to build a balsa plane, and then crashing it.
That would be enough to make me give up.
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Seems to be the word of the day today
It was a beautiful morning to fly this morning, so I did. It was a bit chilly, though only +3C (37F).
After just replacing the firewall and gear box from last weekends goof ups.
I was doing really well, until I got stupid.
I had several Succesfull paved ROGs and landings on the first pack, and even managed to miss all the trees and poles in the parking lot. First time flying off of pavement.
The second pack seemed down a bit on power, but it still ROG'd in 10 feet at 3/4 throttle. The breeze was picking up a bit, it made for nice short takeoffs.
It was calm when I got there, but as always as the sun comes up so does the breeze.
It was actually quite thrilling to be handling a fair breeze with no problem staying over the field. The extra throttle use did cut flight times a bit though.
I got carried away, did something stupid and crashed it again. hard, this time.
Stupid me decided to try a few aerobatics over the grassy part of the field. The loops were going well, except the breeze pushed me off line. Once again it was the inverted part that got me.
I'm developing quite a talent for flying into the ground straight, level, and upside down.
Tore the gear box off the firewall, smashed the cowl, Broke both blades off the prop, blew the battery box out the bottom, and broke the fuselage from battery box to wing on one side. Didn't damage the wing or tail at all
Got to remember to buy an aileron plane before i try any more inverted stuff.
But first I need a new fuselage, cowl, firewall, gearbox, and prop. But at least I didn't break the tail off again
Whee, this is so much fun.
Sure am glad I bought a foamie, instead of spending weeks or months to build a balsa plane, and then crashing it.
That would be enough to make me give up.
members.shaw.ca/agentsmith/Supercub/Supercub_Oct13_Crash2.jpg[/img]
