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Old 04-08-2008 | 07:56 AM
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Default oops, I suffered from over confidence.

saturday I was flying my PZ fw-190 with poorwboy and his PZ spitfire. we were flying in a staggered formation occationally chasing a few Super Cubs that my wife and father in law were flying. It was really cool looking to watch the warbirds flying so close together. I decided to roll the plane inverted as we made a pass, I flew a lap inverted beside the spitfire, it was cool! I righted the plane and we "attacked" the Super Cubs again. as we were flying are victory lap I decided to go inverted again, as I banked into the last corner I let the plane get a little to low and as I tried to nose it out of it, it became clear that I wasn't going to make it!!! I tried to roll out of it but it was to late before I could right the plane it burned in and buried the gearbox and motor about 3 inches into the grass. the fuselage is distroyed, minor damage to the wing, the motor and gear box survived. no excuses for this one!!! oh well I'll fix it and fly it again. wish I had a vid of the action it was pretty cool having 4 planes buzzing around at the same time!!!