Mine almost caught on fire today. I have always hand-launched it and today I decided to see if it would take off on the grass with the bigger wheels. It went about 6 feet and nosed over. I think I cut the throttle quickly , but heard a bad humming anyways. When I got to it it was already smoking big time out the front cowl. I flipped it over and removed the battery hatch to find some nice pretty orange and red smoke coming from the lipo I thought. After I unplugged it I had a hard time removing it because I have it stuffed all the way forward and it wedges pretty good. Anyways I got it out and sen that it was the esc that was hot and put a mark on the battery , but I don;t think the battery is hurt any. The esc melted the foam I guess. I thought it was the motor smoking at first.

I just got done replacing the esc with a supertigre 20 amp that I had and it spons the motor just fine. I had to glue the rudder hinge , I must've flipped it over very fast onto the rudder. When it dries I'll give it a go with same battery and motor and prop , but new esc. Maybe tomorrow. I just couldn't bare to retire it yet. It's getting pretty beat up. It was used $51 when I bought it.