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Old 05-18-2010 | 02:30 AM
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marxoverkill
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Default First Flight - In Air Collision

Hello everyone, my name is Marco, I'm 24 years old and I'm new to the RC world. This past weekend was my first flight with my instructor and everything was going great. After a successful first flight we took a break and just went over some minor details about what to be aware of while in the air. We fuelled up the plane for another go and everything was fine until BANG! Another plane collided with us in mid air. My instructor quickly took over control of the plane and tried to save what he could but he had no control over the ailerons. The plane did a nose dive straight into the ground. I ran over to the plane to recover it and everything was surprisingly in one piece. It landed in a really muddy area which i guess cushioned the impact. The wing needs some work and i think one of the servos was badly damaged but other then that everything was okay. The instructor told me after that they have never had an in air collision at their club until that day. They told me they should have the planes repaired by next weekend so hopefully i will be back up in the air in no time.