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Old 03-31-2004 | 08:29 AM
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Default RE: avoidable disaster

I feel your pain...[>:] A few years a go I lost a 3 or 4 yea old Jerry's Little boy basically the same way. Just after take off I was hovering ( luckly not that low) when the engine just quit. I landed with out event, but as it was rolling out I noticed something was dripping from the tail. When I took off the wing, I found that the 10 ounce tank had emptied itself as the rear of the tank split. Lost 3 servos, a reciever, battery, switch harness, and had to retire the plane as the entire fuselage was fuel soaked.

AT this time I was on the fence about going all electric. This was the proverbial straw for me.