Here's the other side of this wonderful hobby. After this happened, my heart rate stayed up until I went to be that nite!!!
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: ">After the successful maiden flight of my new PZ T-28 Trojan, my next flight was not so good. I went out again the following day to fly the Trojan again, when disaster struck. I had taken the plane up nicely and the wind was fairly calm, 5-6 mph or so. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but the plane got a bit far away from me and I completely lost orientation. I tried to circle the plane back to me when it knife edged and did a plummet straight into the ground. I immediately went to look for my Trojan, but could not find it to save my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The area we fly in ends in a sloping bank planted with vegetation and trees. Beyond that is a divided 4 lane road. I searched for my Trojan for about an hour and finally gave up. I figured someone must have picked it up.
I was devastated to say the least and the next hour or so of flying my FB Stratos and Super Cub was not very enjoyable. My brother had come to fly his Firebird Commander 2 with us and I told him what happened to my T-28. Well he volunteered to search and came back half an hour later empty handed so I figured at that point, that my plane was lost. After we were done flying, I asked my brother to drive along the road one more time so that we might spot my plane by chance. We drove around for about 15-20 minutes in the general area with no luck. We turned around and were headed back when lo and behold, I spotted a white, orange and red object in a construction area about 3/4 of a mile from where I thought I saw my plane go down. Sure enough, it was my Trojan. I jumped out of the truck and rescued my plane. There was minimal damage the plane itself, but my motor and ESC were fried. The wings were intact as was the fuselage, vertical and horizontal stabilizers and canopy. The wings had come off as designed. The airplane is 100% repairable. I bought the ESC and motor and will fly again on Saturday.
It's times like these that make this hobby interesting.......no?</span></p>