Once apon a time when men were men and transmitters were large, immobile ground based units I was flying my single chanel Super 60 on a quiet day. After several sucessful flights I decided to go for it and filled the tank up. Up till then I had been using 2 minute runs because I only had limited range 100 yds max.! This was going to be a 5 minute + flight. I even peaked out the engine before launching. It was going really well and I decided to fly around in left hand circuits and for some reason decided to walk around the TX. Here I need to point out that I was using a bell push on a wander lead. 3 minutes into the flight I realised that something was pulling my hand down, yes the lead was wound around the aerial. My piloting skills failed when faced with trying right hand circuits, total brain fade ensued and I finshed up on my knees.

Model survived but I must confess to a slight sense of humour failure when I looked around to see why no one had come to my aid and saw all my clubmates helpless with laughter.