The right property proof of my planes built from kits is that when ever I crash them, there are a lot of finger prints inside the fuse or wings built in with CA.

My worst mishap was when I built a Corsair (from kit) it took me about 8 months, my wife was pregnant. I finished the kit just one month before my wife give birth of my precious daughter so I didn’t have the time to perform any test on the plane but I knew that it was completely finished and I was very focused on the birth event.

Then, my daughter was born and everything was OK (even if you think that is OK that your mother in law was living in home those days), so a few weeks later I was very anxious to fly my Corsair so I charged the batteries and went to the field at the first opportunity.

The engine was already broken in and I only had to change a three bladed prop for a regular two bladed, I was thinking that was it, I turned on the radio, checked the movement of the surfaces and there were a lot of guys at the field helping and looking at this nice WWII bird, I was so excited by all the multitude that I forgot to make the range test, a friend of mine helped me taking the plane from the starting bench to the runaway, I did the final carburetor adjustments and started to fly. Boy it was really awesome, the plane tracked straight and only a few clicks of elevator trim were needed to fly a straight path, I was so happy, flying very close to the field to see how it was reacting as I was trimming and moving the surfaces, a couple minutes more and then the disaster. As the plane went away farther I lost the communication and the plane just made funny movements until it decided to dive at full power in the dessert.

All of us at the field were much shocked, so a good number of folks went to look for the airplane remains.

One good friend found the reason for lose of communication, the RX antenna was still in the fuse wrapped inside and hold by a strap.