ORIGINAL: kid chuckles

Gary from Weatherford in Granbury our field runway runs N.& S. and usually that is the direction of the wind. It is open at both ends pretty wide so you can come in at an angle and have plenty of room if it is a cross wind. I have been flying Everyday for the last two and a half weeks from about 4- whenever. Manday was pretty windy and my plane died coming with the wind and only about 15ft. off of runway. I got it down but it knocked the landing gear off it was quick. Then Yesterday I flew same plane and I guess my crystal fell out or something. I was about 150ft. up and it just quit responding to anything even throttle. The wind was blowing pretty stiff but not that bad. Anyway when picking up the pieces i noticed my crystal was not in the reciever. Don't know if it fell out during flight or if the crash knocked it out. Put it back in and everything seemed fine. Well what was left. rudder and elev. worked. But man I had plenty time to get it straightened up before it hit just had no control, and it took about 15sec. for it to come down. Not a real fast down just kinda lazy spiral. Flat and all. I knew and was about laughing just before it hit as I knew I had no control. I was alone so no one could have turned anything on to hit it. There were some guys up the road with some kind of elec. equipment but they have been there almost daily. The wind blowing as it was actually slowed it down some. Wind was maybe 15mph.