It was one of those perfect days that you dont see very often, no wind and perfect tempature. I started flying my Funtana x100 just like always slow and having fun. Well I just got done doing a snap roll when all of a sudden it went to full throttle. I knew that I could not fly the x100 at full throttle with the YS 1.10 so I decided to go verticle, that way there would not be as much stress on the plane. Well after a few seconds there was a really lound noise and then silence. At first I thought it was going to be just like any other dead stick but I realized I didnt have hardly any controll. My first thought was I blew one or more surfaces off. Well after fighting it all the way to the ground for a super soft touchdown about 10 feet from the edge of the runway. I was pretty happy untill I walked up to the plane. I realized there was no motor! TALK ABOUT TAIL HEAVY!!! I took it back to the stand and looked it over. The cowl was destroyed the motor mount failed but other than that not a single scratch on the plane.

The field is pretty much surrounded by swamp land all the way around so my hope was the motor didnt fall in there. One of the club members saw something fall and new a gerneral area to look. We probably looked for 30 mins or so with no luck. I thought there went a $400 motor. We gave up and started heading back to the club house. All of a sudden we saw the motor right in the middle of a cleared spot in the field. I was so happy. I then realized how lucky I was.

There might be some minor damage to the motor but not to bad the prop was no were to be found so who knows what really happened in the first place all I know is I got all my stuff back and pretty much in one piece.

FYI: The field looks really bad because it has been raining here in central Arkansas for weeks, so it has not been cut!

I have to put the pics on a couple different post, says the files are to large.

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