<div id="post_message_16008790">Not the hobby just the plane. After three weeks of patching, glueing, and recovering my hog bipe (from a mishap with the elevator control horn), I finally got her back up in the air and it flew beutifully. I just finished my fourth flight with it and decided to go up one last time. I checked the rx battery, fine. Checked my radio battery (has a voltage needle on top), showed 90%. Ok, here we go.

I get it up in the air, and after about 2 maybe 3 minutes into the flight, my engine suddenly went to idle. I tried to throttle up, nothing. I realized I had a problem and needed to get it back on the ground. I turned to come back to the runway. during the turn, I noticed that as Im putting in control inputs, the plane is getting slower and slower about responding. I finally get lined up, the engine dies; my first deadstick.
Heres where I get in trouble. At the end of my runway, unfortunately there are power line crossing it. I see them and as I am trying to go under, I get no reaction from the plane, NO CONTROL at all. I hit the lines with the gear. The tail flips straight up and straight to the ground it goes. The engine is now where the cockpit should be.

After I got my head back I looked at my radio and the meter was on about 5% battery. So did I fly too long or is something wrong with the batt or radio? Ive never flown that long at one time with just one radio so I dont know how long the batt should stay up but I would think longer than that. By the way, this is the third major repair on the hog so I think its time for retirement. All of which, Im proud to say not my fault (not from flying anyway, just skipped maintenance. Lesson learned.) </div>