venom290

Well it finaly happend, my supperstar is (sniff) gone. It was a nice day winds 5/10 mph,22`f , sunny.I was making some passes over the runway,cross wind gust tipped[X(], stalled[], nosed in[:@].arrrggggg.Stupid thumbs. I thought I was gettin pretty good but I just coulden't save it. It was my fist plane (last fall). Cracked down both sides of fuse, one stripped servo.When I got out to it, her guts(tank,batt, etc,) were spilled out her nose like she threw up.[:'(].luckely my old instructor was there to help me pick up the pieces.Anyone have a fuse they want to sell?That la 40 was a good motor, not the strongest but smooth and easy. Might go bigger on rebuild .46?

Rickles56

It happens to the best of pilots.. I crashed my .40 size trainer twice and rebuilt it before buying a new one. I have rebuilt the 2nd trainer 3 times and although today I am a much better pilot (5 yrs later) and into larger planes I still fly the 2nd trainer as a Sunday fun fly when I want some relaxing flight time. I like to build as well and looking at your photos, I would say that plane is repairable...

Good luck with the next one! Maybe move up to a bit more advanced plane this time around.

venom290

I think I will get a new fuse and just swap components. Not much free time right now. 2
small kids , work etc.Rebuild this one as time allows with some mods(tail dragger?)Have two others but snows a cummin and I don't think my skies will fit the mustang.Wheres my ca.

Rickles56

I wasn't sure if you had any other planes. The Mustang looks nice, which one is it? I have a World Models .40 size P51 for pylon racing with an OS 50SX in it. A nice flying plane and quite fast. Good luck with the planes and the kids. My 3 are all full grown now and I have 3 grand kids so this is my time for fun...

venom290

The boys are 5 and 7 . Hopfully have the oldest flying this summer. He's doing great on sim. Mabey re build it for him.Mustang is an older hanger 9. Y.S91. Heres my other .

Rickles56

I like your Wagstaff Extra, very nice looking plane. It looks very clean, have you flown it yet? I just got the Hangar 9 27% Extra 260 and will be putting a DA50 in it as soon as I can get the cash together. My big project for the last year and half has been a DS 1/9th scale B17 bomber. It's about 80% complete and I hope to maiden her in late April. I had another much smaller B17 that crashed on the 2nd flight, it took me 6 months to build that plane! We never did find the actual problem, looks like it was a hung flap. It flew great until I lowered the flaps. I was going a bit fast so raised them and that was when the problems started. It did a spiral dive into the desert floor after I struggled it once around the pattern.

I have 2 boys, 28 and 34 yrs old. They live on the east coast and have flown trainers on buddy cords but don't have much interest in R/C.

Well, good luck with the rebuilds and other planes. Looks like you are all set for summer.

petronio

WEll, if you already know how to fly then discard my suggestion but when I crashed my Canary I decided to build one of these spad trainers and they are just incredible. In one week it was ready to fly. That's the plane with which I learnt to fly, it allows a really slow flight and it is nearly undestroyable. It is not a beauty compared to a balsa plane but it is that practical aspect that counts . Greetings