tom,

when i bet on that other guy and he wins at least i was right once. ha

s,

thanks.

saturday flight was shortlived. i took off, sort of squirrley again, and ron saw something i didn't see. he took over the control, and the eagle took on the flight pattern that looked like a vertical climb attempt, then looked like it was an attempt at knife edge maneuver all from less than 8 feet up, then suddenly the eagle met the runway at full throttle. the prop broke off which allowed the engine to rev to a never before experienced rpm. the eagle settled sort of upright, sort of nose down, sort of on its side and sort of looking back at us.

while this rpm extreme was going on ron showed me that the radio inputs from the radio he was holding had no affect on the engine speed. i tried the same with my part of the buddy box set-up and i had the same results. it finally quit running and we put the battered plane in back of ron's truck and we all left the field. the spinner was badly bent and the end of the left wing was kind of chewed up. there were small places torn on the underside of the wing covering.

i theorized there was intermittent operation in either the transmitter or receiver. ron thinks the receiver switch was pulled only partially on then vibration during takeoff made it go back to the off position. ron says he can have the plane repaired with about an hour of shop time, including switch replacement.

we have a club meeting this coming tuesday night. the guys have one project going using a 6 hp engine. wow!

later, oh ye well balanced dudes,

elad