abufletcher

I don't mind loosing the cheap ARFs I use (and use up) as practice planes...if I figure I've gotten my money's worth of flight training out of them. I had one ARF (a Kyosho me109) that just would not die. As it was coming out of a split S it did a sudden snap and went straight down at almost full throttle into a stand of trees. So off I went to collect the pieces. But after tromping through the woods for about 20 minutes looking for it, there it was just sitting there on the ground on its gear....COMPLETELY UNDAMAGED! This was all the more spooky since looking up all you could see was a thick canopy of branches. I carried it back to the field and flew it again.

I eventually flew the model until it sort of died of old age (and a cracked engine mount that I was too lazy to replace). It's still sitting in a corner.