Hey,
On my second day as a student on the buddy box another student shot me down. My instructer shouted out and it got turned of pretty fast but we could not find my trainer before dark. WE COULD HEAR IT THOUGH! It was still running on the ground. It ran out of gas and we had to give up do to darkness. The next day at daylight I was out and found it sitting upright on the ground in deep woods with just a slightly cracked tail feather. BIG oaks all around that it had to of flown through at least one of them. It flew that evening and lasted for around eight years.
It was a Goldberg Eagle 63. I still have the old AM radio and OS 40 ABC FSR That was in it.