ORIGINAL: wyo69cowboy

Well, my Decathlon met its maker last weekend. [&o] Actually had flown about 5 flights with the Aviastar in it that day, and though it wasn't tuned great, it did seem to make a fair bit more power than the .46 FXi. Ran two flights with an APC 11x6, then switched to a Xoar 12x4. Better pull, more scale speed. I did seem to have some overheating issues, so I pulled the cowl for the last two flights, and it seemed better. Was gonna do the baffle trick, and enlarge the exit hole in the cowl bottom, but in my eagerness to enjoy the new power, pulled up from a low & slow pass into full throttle for a stall turn, and didn't get high enough (air density had to be bad; it was 85 and our elevation is 5000'), stalled as intended and added elevator and throttle to try to recover from the low altitude. Good plan for a spin; bad plan for recovery at that spot! She spun in and smashed everthing back to the servo tray. Wing damaged too, so it's toast. I like the plane well enough though, that I plan on ordering another one in the near future.