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Old 10-12-2005 | 02:14 AM
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fmulder
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Default RE: Hangar 9 Twist 3D

I took my Twist out again today. After spending a day hunting around for an o-ring for the carb on the little evo .46, I headed out to my usual spot. The engine fired first flip, quick warm up, and up she went. After about 5 minutes of some nice relaxing passes back and forth the engine started to cut out. I was almost lined up to land when it died. Only problem is that the road I was landing on has deep ruts at the particular location were the Twist was going to run out of altitude and airspeed. It took what little airspeed it had left to make the slight correction to get it into some waist deep Prairie and as it turns out what would have been a short stall spin of death for my old H9 arrow, turned out to be more of a controlled semi stall with a soft flat plop of a touch down. I ran over to see that the plane was sitting in one piece. There was about a 1/4 gap in the two muffler halves and no nut on the end of the rod. Just happened to have a misc nut set rolling around the bottom of a toolbox in my car, so I double nutted it ,fired it up and flew till dark. Have I mentioned how I love this little plane.