Hey ok I get to the feild (a local canefeild) fire up the engine taxi around a second to warm up with the Avistar. Line it up with the headland and gun it. She rose to the sky beautifully. On a practice approach over the headland the engine decides it has run long enough and decides to take a break, luckily it made this decision over the *runway* so i set it down nicely, get the plane and remember that the glow plus is the same one I broke it in with so I changed the glow plug to a new one. Line it up gun it....... Then it pulls to the right hard without me touching the rudder. So ok the engine stayed running. Line it back up. It stayed going straight and then veered right again and went vertical came back down on the spinner cartwheeled and then stopped. Run over no damage except the engine got wreched to the left pushing againt the cowl cheek. Then it hit me all this time starting the engine with an electric starter, one similar bad landing, and never tightening the engine srews. We wondered what was making that sound...... So the whole engine was just goin from side to side at its hearts content. The local plane expert fixed it good as new. Moral of the story being in to R/C is optional, maintanence is mandatory.

keep em flyin