RE: The unintentional maiden flight !!!
I might have you beat. The ram ECU has a known issue where sometimes if you don't teach the ecu throttle settings first flight of the day, the engine will not ramp down from high throttle for 15 seconds or so.
I'm taxi testing my Turbine jet with NO CANOPY on. I run it to full throttle, about half way down the runway, I pull back to idle and hit the brakes in full.
The jet keeps screaming down the runway and at the end it hits a bump in the runway and goes airborne. This is an unknown unflown airplane.
So as it's pitched up in the air, almost straight up I realize that I'm at full brakes and engine setting at idle. It occurs to me that I'm now flying and I need throttle, so I jam it.
Then I hear from the pits "your canopy is not on" I yell back that this is an accident!!
So I fly around about three circles and line up for landing. I didn't grease it in, but I got my jet back.
Well, that's one mistake I'll never make again.
LOL
Sean