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Old 09-14-2011 | 01:53 AM
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I wish I could give an accurate description of what caused it. It happened so fast. I was just doing touch and goes with it. There was very little wind. I turned on to base and it just rolled on over and went in, fast. I had plenty of air speed. It was NOT stalled. I'm still in the process of inspecting the plane. One thing I noticed, the rudder servo is stripped out and before I flew I noticed that when I switched the rudder servo to high rates on the ground, it would nove the extra distance somewhat jerky. I had Futaba 9001 in it. I know that I've always heard not to use nylon geared servos on a gasser but it's what they suggested in the manual.

If you'll recall I posted about the tires wearing out and I had been flying it on Saturday and it was real windy. I was slipping it in. Maybe the rudder servo was damaged.

If I put another one together, you can bet it'll have metal geared servos.