Did you ever have one of those days where you literally had to fight tooth and nail to get one plane in the air? I had one of those days.

First I tried to fly my Parkzone 109G. Something happened to the ESC because I could get the control surfaces working but the motor would not do a thing. Brought it home and changed out the esc and now it works fine. Sending the stock one back to Horizion, what a piece of S%#$!

Took me a while to get the motor on the VQ 190 started, but once I did it started running great. Took me about 5-6 restarts to get it down the runway because the grass is so tall and wet since there has been little to no dry days or sunshine. It just kept nosing over just trying to taxi the thing. Got it up in the air and on takeoff one of the wheels decided to turn parallel with the wing. So I flew it for about 4 minutes and with the gear up I slid her in. Slid real nice on the wet grass with no damage or even a scratch. I was going to tighte the set screw on the landing gear when I heard some rattling in the cowling when I lifted it up. two metric screws came out of the bottom of the cowling that must have come off the motor somewhere. I just got the motor back from YS parts and service so either they did not tighten them down or stripped the threads on the motor. I will find out this evening when I open it up. The maiden of the plane was O.K. I guess since I did not crash the thing, but it was just such a pain for the whole day at the field I just wish I would have stayed home [&o].

Will report back later when I know what is up with the motor.