ORIGINAL: sportrider_fz6
it still needed to be trimmed out, and he is not able to do it. But he decided that he was going to throw it up by himself while I wasn't even around to help and the flight was quite normal, a full throttle hand launch followed by full left aileron then elevator into a lawn dart. breaking the fuse in half at the battery box. this is not the first time this has happened on this plane, and seeing how he has a new 2oz. bottle of foam safe CA and a roll of packing tape we could have patched the plane and had it up in a few minutes, but what happened next was just psychotic. he grabbed the plane by the leading edge of the wing and in a rage started slamming the plane up against a baseball backstop literally breaking it into hundreds of pieces tearing and throwing the electronics everywhere, it was really disturbing to see. I yelled at him "Hey man what the hell are you doing?" and he starts flipping off the air??? or something and is yelling "F it all!!!! F it all to hell" I mean dude went mental.
Well, one piece of advice, never take him hunting... It is easy to put the blame on things (like model airplanes) for our own failures. Since he is family, I would try to keep helping him. Maybe he is not ready to fly that kind of plane...
Good luck
Gerry