RE: Dropped my Escapade :(
Bummer! Sorry about your "pre-flight blight".
Ihave had a few:
Had just finished covering a kit wing with Monokite and dropped an 18" steel ruler. It hit the floor and bounced and came UPthrough top and botton wing panels.
Set a wing ona hot trim iron. ("What's that smell? D'OH!")
Set a wing in the back of the stationwagon and when Iarrived at the field the fuselage had slid and the prop was sticking through the middle of one panel.
Melted the covering trying to pull out a wrinkle in an ARF.
Think of it as a good omen - a sacrifice to the flight gods.
A pilot Iknowwas preflighting his new model andturned around to do something and then stepped back on his brand new model. And then there are the "reversed aileron" maidens that are short and often spectacular to watch. Ihave seen three of these over the years. Four, but that one didn't count because the pilot figured it out immediatelyand landed OK.