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Old 06-16-2007, 06:11 PM
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Default RE: Death of a Patty Wagstaff

Remaiden the Patty today.Went through all range checks and checked CG.Range checked good from about 50 paces from plane.
Went a few more paces and plane started glitching,then a few more paces and glitching quit.
Thought was ok. Flew plane.Trimmed with about 4-5 clicks up elevator(nose heavy)and 4-5 clicks right aileron.
Was coming by to make a fly by and elevators glitched twice on my downline.Backed off engine to do a go around and land.
Started my bank to the left to go around and ailerons glitched hard to the right.got it recovered and finished my
go around to land.Had to come in a little hot,my idle trim was too high,so I flipped the throttle cut,off and on,to slow the engine.
Got it to touchdown,but still too fast,flipped the throttle cut,but would not shut engine down.Went to turn to slow it down before I
run out of runway.Plane nosed over onto the prop and shut off engine.No damage except for my nerves.
JasonInAugusta took some pics.Hopefully he got some good pics.

thanks Roy