RE: Anyone have a maiden flight like this.
I have to agree with VG here...an ultimately with Allan, even if his comment was a bit undiplomatic. Bill Thompson is an experienced builder and flier of large scale WWI models. He clearly has some major building and flying skills. And as a regular participant on the Dawn Patrol circuit he may have been building to very tight deadlines. But in this case, the speed of the build seems to have worked against the ultimate result. And I think it IS reasonable to assume that the speed of the build is related to the early demise of this particular model.