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Old 03-07-2008 | 02:41 PM
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Default RE: Lipo Storage

I have a Herr Little Something Extra and love that thing. Great plane.. electric conversion, by the way.

It has an interesting history. Maiden: 72 MHz channel 11. I flew it on the maiden after flying my Venus II Pattern Plane on 2.4 GHz. I forgot to raise the antenna on my Airtronics 72MHz. Oops. It was up, I was trying to trim but couldn't and the further it got from me the more I lost. I managed to drop the throttle to shut down the motor, which it did, but by that time, it was over the trees and going away from me. I watched where I thought it went down and marched on over to that point. I walked about 100 yards into the woods and there it was, sitting on the ground with only a broken prop. Wphew!!!

Next, I got it fixed and brought it back out for maiden attempt #2. Launched, gained altitude and wouldn't you know it.. antenna is down... AGAIN! [:@] It nosed over, did a couple of strange loops, then headed straight down. When it hit, the wing popped off and broke in half.

I went to the LHS and he had another one is stock so I picked it up and fixed the first one with parts from the second one. Then I put in a DX7 receiver.

Maiden #3. Took off, this time with the DX7... and, after trim, flew it perhaps 10 minutes??? or so. Nice flyer. Very responsive and that thing rolls with the best of them!!!

So, it is now an officially maidened LSE Electric Conversion that I will fly as soon as the weather breaks.

CGr.