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Old 08-16-2015, 05:15 PM
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Okay guys, I flew the plane. The takeoff and flying was straight forward. It hit the 5 minute mark and it was all well. I lowered the gears, all okay, lowered the flaps, all okay for about 10 seconds and then the plane went if to a shallow dive. I pulled on the elevator but nothing happened. Went to full throttle and pulled again still nothing. At this point It was about 15 feet in the air. I tried to bring the flaps up but nothing happened so it hit the soft grass with the nose. I had full Airlons and power control.

frame is total. The turbine, tank, pipe, fin and gears are fine. I just broke the soft landing gear covers. Sad ending to a long build for this project. I will be probably take the covers off the gears and sell them and go to Something else.

Behzad