I'm flying a 103" 15 pound Vickers WEllington with two Magnum 52 four strokes. THe wing loading isn't all that bad, don't know the wing area. I've lost an engine 6 times with the plane.

First time was on take off on the first flight. I aborted teh take off and set it down with the gear up. One wasn't all the way in and the plane was mushing in. The partially retracted gear leg bent and sent the plane skidding across the ground and into a safety fence and fence post. Damage was minimal to the plane. The gear leg was spaghetti.

The second time I lost the right engine on the downwind to land. In this case, I kept the nose down, speed up and landed. Taxing was difficult.

The third time was at a field with corn field all around. TWo other bombers were already flying with bigger gas engines so I had trouble hearing my engines. The pilot boxes were also above the runway on the side of a hill. I lost the left engine because I didn't refuel. Got distracted. It was awfully sluggish on take off. I should have aborted since I was having to hold plenty of rudder, I should have known something was funny. The plane got airborne and was climbing out at a very shallow angle. I wasn't going to clear the corn so I pulled more up elevator. Keep in mind I didn't know the engine was dead. She flipped over and went straight in from about about 20 feet up. Crunched the nose back to the wing leading edge and ripped out the tailwheel.

The other times have all been mild events typically ocurring due to fuel exhaustion and often when on final or base. No damage.

Chris