AZThud

Well the 39 was completed and was killed on its maiden, lost the elevator and the loss was complete. I was moving the batteries around on the night before the final for C of G and my theory is that the servo connection was loosened. Roll control and throttle seemed to work, but she just pitched down and would not respond to any input, it just went down and hit was real hard.

Battery hatch was in front of the cockpit, As you can see the pilot was still in trauma :-)