G'day

I helped a friend test fly a plane today. He had just rebuilt it after it tried to attack a tree. The tree won.

He got it down (it was about 40 feet up) by shooting it with a slingshot. He did make a few holes in it but it eventually let go and gravity did the rest.

As a result of his rebuild, it now has a small amount of anhedral (negative dihedral) and looks like a rather strange F-4 Phantom in the air. It flies Ok though but it does need quite a bit of rudder as well as ailerons in turns so we have mixed a bit in using the radio's mixing.

The owner is a dentist in his late 60s so if he can shoot a plane out of a tree with a home made slingshot, anyone should be able to?

Mike in Oz