We had a two day fun-fly with 50 pilots and two crashes of a "complete destruction" nature last August. One of those was a gut wrenching deliberate ditch when a twin engine 1/5 scale Broncho lost the starboard engine on approach and veered toward the crowd. That's valour on the pilot's part. The other was a giant-scale Gee Bee. You're not flying scale if you don't crash a Gee Bee 15% of the time. Aside from that our club of 35 had four crashes all of last year that I know of (one was yours truly trying to do a full throttle roll at eye level . . . hot dogs, or at least hot dogging, can be poison). Some days there are no mishaps, even minor ones. Some months there are no "reported" crashes. But then there are only two guys in the club who could be considered true "3-D" fliers.

When the angels pee in your carburator and the gremlins kick your thumb you just have to gather the pieces and keep at it.