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Old 04-28-2003 | 04:16 AM
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impulse
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When i fly my fighterbird sometimes this happens. I'll be flying and think im turning one way but im realy turning the other way. It freaks me out all the time. Usually i just say to myself "calm down don't panic" and i'll be fine. But today i was flying at my local park. I just got done flying over some trees and start doing a left turn. I must of looked away but realized instead of turning softly i turned sharp and was going back over the trees. (just to let you know i like to fly low). So im like "CRAP!!!!" so i push full throttle to try to get over the trees. I miss the first 3 but ctash the fourth. The plane spirrled down and hit the ground. So i did "the walk" you know the one after you crash and you thinking how bad the plane is. So i walk up. The wing is shifted prop vut it a little bit but i put some tape so if that happens its not a bad. A rubber band came off and the landing gear came off. But besides that it was fine. I re-attached the plane and threw it again. I would just like too you another story about ANOTHER crash.

So me and my dad are flying. Now for you who don't know fighterbirds. If you hold the steering stick all the way left or right with full power you will go into a "death spin". So my dad if flying and he accidently does the death spin but luckily gets out of it. I was like "man your lucky!!" Hey just said " i did that on purpose". So i was thinking to myself BS. So i fly and fly well with no crashes. So my dad flys again and thought he would do the same trick again. BAD IDEA. So im wathing and he try's the same thing. The plane goes into the death spin. He starts realzing he's pretty low so he gives it full throttle to get out of it. Yeah full throttle straight into the ground. So i just watch this plane go from 800 feet to 0 feet with full throttle in about 3 seconds. So we hear a loud thud that you know that doesn't sound good. So we walk over and look at the plane. I notice it hit so hard that it through out the battery by ripping the clicking thing of the wires. So were like well we knows thats a gonner so theres $30 down the drain. So we keep lookin and there was a little dent in the fuesalage but looked like it was still flyable. So the next weekend with a new flyer which i have a story for, we went to the park. So my dad throws the plane and it went up about 10 feet and straight back down.So my dad try's again and the same thing happens. The plane hit sooo hard it tweaked the fuesalage and the deggre of the prop was pointed down causing it to crash. So pretty much for my dad being cocky and stupid he just lost $160 in 3 seconds. Doesn't sound like its worth it huh?

He is my other story of the kid i was talking about. This also happened on the same day. My friend with his brandnew fighterbird is ready to fly. Battery charged,transmitter on,plane in my dad's hand and ready to go. So my friend says "im ready throw it!!!" So my dad throws it and the plane takes off very well. He got some altitude and was flying great. So he's flying and noticed that his plane was turning left. So i told him to adjust his trim. So he looks down for about 3 seconds then looks back up. At this i see him kinda going North. So he's flying and im watching. I notice that he's goes farther North. So my dad thinks he's doing alright so we went to the car to get more batterys. Now im realy thinking. "Wow he's pretty far away he knows to turn he'll be alright" So he keeps flying for about 30 seconds and i notice something realy strange. Now his plane is going north and he's looking east. At this time my dad comes up and ask's. Dude where are you? So he points East again. So my dad looks long and hard and realizes. Ryan!!! (thats his name) THATS A BIRD!!!" So he realizes it is and says " WHERES MY PLANE!!!" so at this time i take charge and yell "ITS ALL THE WAY OVER THERE!!!!!" So now he's freakin. So now at all times the wind starts kicking up. The plane was so far away you couldn't tell what it was doing. So we just watched it fly around the finnaly crash into a BIG neiborhood. So he goes run to look for it. So i said well im going to fly my plane. So after flying my battery he comes back after 15 MINUTES!!!! So we pack up and go look for it for about an hour and never found it. Couple days later he posted flyers but no one found it. So he just lost a $130 plane ON HIS FIRST FLIGHT!!!!!!

So the conclusion to that day: My dad's plane didn't work. My friend lost his plane. And i was the only one that still had there plane. And didn't crashed. So i had a good day.