I was doing great at the field today. Multiple TO's and Landings all done well, even an inadvertant dead stick. My instructor was playing around with it a little, nothing too extreme, when we heard a pop, and saw the plane snap to the left and nose straight into the ground at full power. The devestation was total, bobble-head Brendan Shanahan was wrenched from his seat and wedged about an inch into the ground. The engine was ripped from it mount, which was also ripped from the firewall. The biggest pieces were the wingtips, which were each about 1 foot long and the chord length. As unhappy as I am that she is totalled, It was actually kinda cool to watch, if only it had been someone elses plane.
Luckily my instructor has a cherokee that we can use for practice. and a bingo once he finishes the kit. He also offered to teach me a little on his jungmeister bipe, but I refused. Its much too pretty for me to mess it up.