CGRetired
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Joined: 9/14/2004
From: Galloway,
NJ, USA
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I don't have pictures, but a few words will describe what happened.
I was flying my Brio 10 electric in a vacant shopping center parking lot one evening. I was doing some nice aerobatics, and just having fun. The wind, what there was of it, was coming from left to right, so I lined up to land. The approach took me over two trees that were about 10 feet apart and about 20 feet high, and branches that pretty much overlapped.
You guessed it. I was coming in and thought I had cleared the top of the trees when suddenly.. smack. I hit the branches between the trees. Depth perception was not good that evening.
And one reason I am not that favorable about balsa electric aircraft. Very fragile. A similar thing happened to a converted glow-to-electric conversion model (Sig Little Somethign Extra) and the only thing broken was a prop. With the Brio 10, though, being a totally electric design, well, it was totally scrap. Not much left to salvage except the electric components (RX, servos, ESC, motor, and battery). All else was pretty much splinters.
CGr.
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