Sorry to hear that. I'll join the list of people who did the same thing.

I was flying a fairly new (6 flights) on my Seagull 66inch extra and enjoying ever minute of it. I was at our other field that no one really flies at since it's kinda rough, well anyway I was out pretty far along the tree line and over the trees. I was lining up on base from downwind and as soon as I rolled level, whack. I caught the right wing with the very top of a really small branch and watched it tumble down through the tree all the way to the ground.

The weird thing was I saw the hit and thought to myself that doesn't look good and about then the sound of the impact got to me.

What made matter worse was I was just telling one of the guys how proud of myself I felt after 400+ flights without even tearing the landing gear out of any of my planes and the really ironic thing was that person was my instructor.

Oh Well my dad always told me that if I was going to do anything to always do it right. Well my first crash was done as best as I could do as there was nothing left but the front of the fuse from the canopy forward. It did not even scratch the tru-turn spinner.