Well, heres the story of my maiden weekend.............
By the way, I stated in an earlier post that the all up weight was about 16 - 17 lbs on my fish scales, these were way off, the plane weighed in at a touch under 19lbs, which from what I have read isnt too bad.
Saturday was to be the day, however, lined up for take off, brought up the power and as she rolled to start take off I didnt put enough rudder correction in and she went off to the left and nosed over bursting the prop, didnt have a spare with me [&o]
Sunday came along and with new prop installed and Expo removed from rudder to be ready to put a hand full of right rudder in for take off I was ready.
Everything was checked out, ran her up, taxied out, started take off run, looked great, straight down the runway, took off great, no trim required, climbed out good, turned left slowly, then during the turn, I apeared to have no aileron control, she rolled off and piled towars earth at great speed.
Good night Typhoon !!
I really dont know what happened, all I can say is that the plane flew perfectly untill this happened.
Total loss on plane, engine crank case cracked, carb damaged, spinner destroyed, both struts wtrecked but retracts survived [
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Pretty expensive day for me but hey, if you are going to fly RC planes, you need to be able to take these days with the good ones.
I would buy another ESM plane, they are good value and great looking, mind you, I may have to wait a while to get the drive for another warbird.
Last pictures below.