Stupid, Stupid Stupid! Now w/pics!
Well, I think I can rebuild my F-22. I had not gotten to fly for most of the summer and the local flying field picnic was today but there were thunderstorms roaming about. So I cleaned my shop and decided to taxi myF-22down to my local park and just give it a spin for a couple of minutes,......STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!!!! for got about the trees, their wind shadows and all the freaking obsticals!!! Well everything was going great, taxied out, did a couple of medium to high speed taxis to get a feel for aborting or recovery from landing, then got it lined up and nice and smooth to max throttle, 70 foot roll, nose wheel then mains, very pretty,.....and that was the end of pretty, picked up the first wind shadow then another, the wind wasn't that strong, just the obsticals made a big difference. Thought, self you need to get this back on the ground. Did I just lighten up on the throttle and set it back down? plenty of room,....no, me the big bad pilot is going to complete the circuit and land where I took off. Bad move, turned with the wind right in to another wind shadow, ok this is stupid, leveled it back out, easied back on the throttle and was just going to set it back down, another wind shadow, up I go, max throttle, turn back to me, except I forgot now I'm with the wind, cut the throttle and eased the stick forward, not the result I wanted, right wing tip stall, rolled right, thought I had it clase to the ground would be able to mush out a wheels landing,....nope, 3" divot and folded the fuse at the nose wheel. Can be fixed but was just really stupid! FLY at the FLYING FIELD!!!