Well it finally happened on a nice Saturday afternoon. The bird only had about 15-20 flights on her and was really going well. I got the field, set all up and fired her up. Engine was having a few problems but I sorted it out by tuning it. The first fly of the day went ok but just needed some trimming to get her flying stable and level. All was good, landed her and refueled it for another flight.

Second flight was going ok, until half way through I could hear the engine making some odd noises. The RPM was increasing and decreasing and so on...until the engine finally just quit. So I tried my hardest to dead stick is before (have had no worries in the past), but she was coming in too fast and TOO low. I didnt realise that to the right side of me was all these trees, it touched down nicely but was going TOO quick on the ground to stop. Then the hard crunch of balsa wood rings in your ears... from a distance the plane looked fine, i was like "feww how lucky was that, hardly no damage", boy was I wrong.

Friend walked up to it first and said "Aww dude, you dont wanna know...dont look", the fuse has major damage to the firewall, front landing gear, servo horns and rods, stuffed the throttle servo, snapped prop, basically the whole front end of the plane was crushed. Luckily engine was fine, will post pics when I have time. At least this gives me an excuse to build a new plane using my new engine I just got. A brand new vintage 1975 OS FSR .40. I will look for a new kit this weekend.