Maidin,

I'm not quite to the point of being able to catch it, but I found that if I practiced flying past myself as low and slow as possible, hanging on the prop ("harrier," I guess) and trying to drag the tail in the grass, I could just chop the power at the last instant and it would pancake-land very nicely. I haven't broken any props this way. They do get grass-stained.

The only airframe damage I've experienced is when I got brave and started trying to do tail-dragging touch-and-goes. Then a couple times it hit while spooling up to full throttle and broke the motor mount out. Banana plugs between the motor and the speed control saved the day in that case -- motor broke out, plug disconnected, motor stopped instantly. I'm not sure what would've happened if it had been hard-wired, but I figured it couldn't hurt to have connectors in the system. If nothing else, it's convenient -- I can use the same speed control for more than one airplane this way.

Duane