1st flight, ran up motor did control surface checks and the usual motor tunning. Had the motor leaned a bit, the motor quit during flight and had to do a dead stick landing, did a successful landing all went well, lasted bout 3 min. flight.
2nd flight, repeated the procedure, got up did some inverted flying, some snaps and spins and a touch and go. The usual flying meant for this model. Engine died again came in dead.
3rd flight, was thinking the third time is a charm, was doing well with flying aircraft looked very well trimed, contiued what I wanted to do in the 1st 2nd flight. Did one very low inverted pass that rocked, smooth and precise, then a knife edge.
...okay landing, hmmm went dead again... looking like it was gonna be a normal to easy landing. Wind, heading down the runway and landing into the wind, at bout 5 knt. headwind, with a 15 mph approach speed, i come flying in with the engine dead. So it's very difficult... I come about half foot off the ground and the aircraft is dropping quickly then i pull up thenose to smoothen the landing. Then the usuall happens as a I flare the model TOO MUCH, I stall the aircraft and had a hard landing which results in a busted landing gear.
here are the 3 pics i took of my plane, showing the dreaded landing gear damage, hysterically enough this happened like the 2nd time. Okay well down to business, this will keep me busy for the next few days rebuilding and re-egineering the main gear.
Amazing enough, is that two other guys actually crashed, but I would say I crashed landed.
well this is what happen to me today, enjoy the pics. Feel free to ask anything.
