ORIGINAL: FalconWings
Have you guys ever seen as highly loaded model snap roll? he,he It all ended quickly. Thing dropped like a rock.
Yup. And the DF jet survived. Barely.
Going through a 90 degree banked turn at 100'. Snapped. Recovered pointing straight down at 75', still full throttle. Let it go a bit, then began pulling out. Lost sight of the jet behind a slight rise in the corn field. Figured it was a gonner, but continued to fly it. To my surprise, it popped back into view, wings level and climbing. Flew around and landed. Found a two foot corn stalk leaf hanging out of one inlet, and splotches of green all over the jet (colour scheme was mostly white with red trim.) Cleaned it up and flew it the rest of the weekend.
There's a short video of the jet on my web site after I had taxied back. "Green Mountain Jet Rally, DL Aeromodeles Cyclone, After Flight Through Corn, July, 2001"
...jim