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Old 06-30-2013 | 03:59 PM
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slider_buck
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From: Ray, OH,
Default first flight today!

well i have had a nitro airstrike now for about 4 years and never have flown it. i finally got the FMS simulator and felt pretty confident on flying it. i took it out first thing this morning and had 5 excellent flights. i came home and decided to go back out to the same spot about 5 hours later. well this time it wasnt so pretty. i made a few passes perfectly and decided to bring it in to fuel it back up. after i fueled it up i took off across the field and took to the air again. about the time that it got 60 feet off the ground it all of a sudden did a complete 360 all on its own and the engine died. luckily i was able to land it ok. well i checked everything out and put it back in the air. the same exact thing happened again. i called it quits after that. hopefully it was just interference from something causing the 360 loop but what would cause the engine to die?