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Old 11-04-2007 | 05:50 PM
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From: Varginha, BRAZIL
Default RE: u-can-do 60

Well, I will retire my UCD.

Yesterday I was flying it in what seemed to be a normal day.

I was trying to do some low rolling circles and inverted harries with my UCD. When I puted the UCD inverted and would turn to enter in an elevator to do a low pass on the track axe, two of three hinges of the ruder just broken in the middle.

I took a time to figure this and when I noticed the fail, my plane was over the rc car track in our field.

I tried aply full throttle to get out there, but the borken ruder dind't let the plane fly.

My UCD made a stall turn direclty back to the pleace where the rc cars guys was.

I coudn't do anything. I just listened the crashing sound.

Man, I though I was killed somebody.

When I arrived on the crash place - God helped me - my UCD didn't reach the ground. It stoped on the tree where the RC guys was hiding from the sun.

This could be a tragedy.

Well, noboby got hurts and the funny thing is my UCD dind't broken. Even the engine was still runing over the tree.

The only damage is the in flight broken hinges... I have a video fo this all that I will post soon.

But now I can't trust this plane anymore.

The bad quality is more the the simply covering problem to things that can harm peaple around me.

I liked my UCD. I think I have a bad luck with it. Maybe mine became with factory problems or maybe mine is an old kit that was in the distributor with old parts that can fail easily. I don't know.

But I will go to another and less problematic plane...

Video: http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=93IbLA_4Gyk