Well, I planted my beloved Magic extra at the Memphis Pro Bro this last weekend. I had just finished recovering everything but the wing and bottom of the tail feathers. The covering was coming off everwhere else, so I used new covering to hold down the blue/white stripes and just added a simple white jaggy on the fuse.

It flew great Friday and Sat morning. The wind was about 13mph with gusts to 19 so it was pretty rugged at times. I was just playing with harriers and such down on the far end of the runway away from all the hovering. As I came around in the pattern from one end to the other at 1/2 throttle level flight at about 40ft, the plane made two sudden jerk/dips (sorts of like the start of a snap roll) then went straight into the ground before I could even think about saving it. It happened so fast I was still trying to correct it when I realized it had already crashed lol.

I'm not really sure what the cause was... I wish I could say it was dumb thumbs - I've been there done that and have the splinters to prove it. This time I really don't know what happend? There were 45 registered pilots and only one other on my channel. All the radios were in impound unless you had the pin so I doubt I was shot down by him. I guess truly not knowing what happened is worse than knowing you did it. Now I have to wonder if I need to send in the radio, receiver etc. I checked the wreckage for any clues but everything seemed fine.

And yes, as my plane laid there dead, several loving bro's were happy to violate my planes carcass by hovering over it for several minutes lol. Gotta love em!



The first two pics are the before. Naturally it's the red one next to my Stinger and 4*.
The third was from the flight line and the fourth was what I saw when I walked up to it.