Some of you might have read my other post on first time flying and doing it in high winds.

It has been fun learning to fly using this Axn 4 channel mid wing plane. Would have been helpful doing it with an instructor, but i am figuring it out.

Last week i was flying at dusk and the sun was on the horizon. It was still outside and the mosquitos were down so i thought i would do a little flying.

Well when i flew into the sun i lost visual of it and took a nose dive. I didn't see any damage. So sent the plane back into the air. Little did i know that the battery had slammed back into both the rudder and elevator servos stripping out the gears.

When the plane was air born i had a heck of a time controlling it. I tried to get it where i could make a landing and was head for a crash, so i hit the throttle and sent it up into the sky. Then lacking rudder, this is when i realized it was messed up, it did a large loop and went nose first into he ground at full speed. The thing was toast or so i thought.

As you can see the nose is in bad shape, cracked on both sides from the top down to the bottom.





Well i read you can boil the foam and it will go back to its original shape, so i figured why not give it a try. Well it worked and a little glue and tape and it was looking pretty good.



Yesterday i got the servos replaced and pained stripes on the bottom that are black and on the top that are red. This definitly gives it more visibility in the overcast skies and helps to see what the orientation is.

After a flight around the field i was having a problem getting it trimmed in as it is flying a liitle bit different. So i came in for a landing and landed very nicely. I adjusted the elevator push rod and took her up for a flight again.

Things seemed to be going better now and the elevator was sorted out. I still needed to trim the ailerons as it was diving to the right a little. This would have been fine but i was already close to some trees, but i looked like i had plenty of room. Well i trimmed it to far and went right into a 70 foot or so tall oak tree on my property line. Arrggg.

I hop on the 4 wheeler and drive over to the edge of my field and hope it came out the other side. Nope, it is up there about 25 ft tangled in the thick branches and below it was a lot of smaller brushy trees keeping me from getting below it. Dang! Well i drive back to the house and find a grappling hook i made some years ago to pull out branches from the trees after a big storm.

After about half a dozen tries i snag it and pull. It was stuck good. Thinking it was already ruined i sad the heck with it and pull with all my weight, some 170 something pounds. Nothing! Getting ticked off i figure it will be better to recover this plane in pieces then to leave it all up there and loose all the electronics. So i give it another good pull and keep pulling it through branches breaking branches as i go.

Then the plane comes out with the grappling hook stuck in the wing, but overall it looks fine.



I need to do a little wing repair, but i think i will have this plane up and flying again. I am really surprised that it didnt sustain more damage from the crash and from me pulling on it with all my weight. I guess these planes are pretty tough.

Forgive any grammatical or spelling mistakes as i am writing this on my phone.