Yup. five stiches on my right index finger from an electric powered Little Something Extra. It was a new build and I was setting up the speed controller, didn't realize that it was reversed. The fail safe calls for full throttle then idle and it is armed. Well, in this case, full throttle was minimum on the stick, so when I went to full throttle, it armed. So, when I returned to idle, the motor spun to full throttle. I did two things in the same motion. I reached for the plane because it was headed for my front window (I was in the house) and with the other hand, I smacked the throttle to max on the transmitter, which was actually idle for the speed controller.

But, when I reached for the aircraft, I got my right hand in the way of the prop and that darned rotating sword sliced my finger in three places as it rotated. One on either side of the main slice was a scratch. The main slice was a good one.. opened my finger to the bone. So, off I went to the Emergency Room and had to explain this to the doctor that looked at my hand and sutured it up. He said it was a first for his career.. stiching up a finger cut open by a model aircraft.

It's fine now, still gets stiff a bit, but no big deal. But, I remember what happened and how it happened, and have a lot more respect for those rotating knives!!

CGr.