So sorry for your loss. I too have memories of the one that got away. It was a beautiful T-tail glider, the only plane I ever built from scratch, and I just loved it. I loaned it to a friend, and he took it out to a huge hill with miles of undeveloped land behind it in Ventura, CA. He was having a great flight, but as he adjusted the elevator trim suddenly he lost control of the plane. Thinking that his transmitter battery had come loose, which it was prone to do, he feverishly took the back off, discovered that the battery was fine, then discovered the real problem - instead of hitting the elevator trim he'd turned the transmitter off! (In retrospect, I don't know which was dumber - that, or telling me about it.He turned the transmitter back on but had taken his eyes off the glider for so long it was gone. Just vanished. We spent a week tramping through the hills downwind of our site but never found it. That was 20 years ago, and I still mourn that plane.