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Old 03-24-2003 | 01:10 AM
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Default Save of the year!

i was flying my u can do 3d on first flight and every thing was going good. cranked the 1.08 os up and went to the runway.hollered taking off and fire walled the left stick.
it broke ground and started a left roll and out of instinct i went right. well it snapped over left faster than i could figure any thing out. full down went in and up i went reversed ailerons and all. reversed 1 side of my ailerons and now had flaps and spoiler's on me aileron stick. that is not fun steering a u can with rudder and elevator. went to get the ailerons back to back words because it was flyable i hit the button and the elevator changed to being back words, so I'm having a hell of a good time flying his plane. but hold on it gets worse. the throttle ball link broke and stuck at half throttle. so i go oh shi#. now we have no throttle, no ailerons,and a back words elevator. it goes in behind some trees and we go expecting the worse. we get to it and the cowl has a crack from the broken prop and that was it. it landed in some grass that was thick and like 4 feet tall. that is what i call luck.

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