That's the one!

Regarding those control surfaces? The last one of these I saw flying was DLE 30 powered. WAY too much power (yes, just right for some mad men!). The pilot forgot about that and started clowning around trying to buzz another plane in the air with him - and gave us all a reminder about what can happen in a spectacular mid air explosion!

He let it go wide open a little too long, long enough to get his ailerons fluttering, only instead of letting go as would normally happen - they held on and started the WINGS fluttering! That's generally a bad sign of things to come, and sure enough, they disintegrated in mid air. What a show! Nothing can be blamed on the plane either. That's 100% pilot error - and he fessed up to that before the parts even started hitting the ground....

That was over a year ago, but I heard he has another on the bench right now - with that same DLE 30 in it... I had one with a 26cc RCGF in it and that power was about right. Great vertical! The DLE 20 makes about the same power - but is 8oz or so lighter. That's about perfect in my eyes...