Well today started off with rain but late this afternoon it started to clear off and became nice after supper. So i loaded up my daughter my SSE and my Chippie picked up my video man and off we went. The first time i took off and flew around it smoked beautifully and away we went. The second time i took off it smoked for about 3 seconds and then ran out!!!!!!!!! apparently i need to adjust the amount of smoke oil that comes out as i am going through a tank way to fast. Anyways i didn't have my smoke oil with me (DUH!!) so i brought it back down and fired up me SSE. I took off made a couple passes and then while in a steep dive it started to corkscrew went throttle wide open and SMACK into the ground. Upon inspection my power switch fried taking out the battery!!!!! Here are some pics. I don't think i will repair it but i put it in a garbage bag and set it up on a shelf and will forget about it for a while. All the servo's are fine but i am going to send the reciever away to get it tested before i put it in another plane. Bummer.!! Worst part about the evening was my buddy with the video camera forgot to hit record the first flight so all i have is 3 seconds of smoke, plus it was the first time he tried videoing a plane and lost it soon after that. I will get him to upload the video and put what little footage i got on here.



Flyboy76