I was at the first annual Profile Brother Funfly in Memphis. Everyone was flying everyone elses profiles. After I flew Jim Nohsey's plane I wanted him to fly my Knife so he could check out the Ultrathrust muffler. He was putting her through it's paces and about a hundred feet up (Jim I'm not sure how high it was but it was up there) he came out of manuever and she pointed here nose down and just kept going. He said he didn't have it. I don't normally have radio problems but I figured it was a done deal as we watched it blaze into the earth nose down from up high. I saw it hit the ground and then I heard what sounded like a pistol shot - BANG!
Well I walked out through the cornfield in the rain. As I got closer I was looking for the debris. I didn't see any. I got right up on it and didn't see a splinter! I wish I had a picture but I was in GahGah land at the time. She was stuck nose down with her tial straight in the air. I pulled her out of the mud and NO DAMAGE! The gear was pushed back 15 degrees (a 10 minute fix), the prop was broken and the carb was rotated back a little! The only other thing I noticed was the wing was a little loose in the frame (CA and 30 minute epoxy).
The mud in the pasture must have soaked up enough rain to totally take the impact. CRAZZY! It's like when that guy fell out of airplane and landed in a marsh and lived!
THANK YOU PROFILE GOD!!!

Billy,

Glad to hear your profile survived with so little damage! Out here in the Sonoran Desert we have kalichi (think God's concrete) and nose-dives don't usually survive that well.

Brother Billy... That is hands down the best crash story I have ever heard...I can almost feel your expectation and dread walking out in that field...Did you fly it again that day...

It could have (new prop and some Ca). I had the Duck and TopCap with me. The rain got so bad I just watched the other Brothers fly with bags over their radios.

here is the walk of shame

The top bolt in the gear wasn't moved. The bottom bolt ripped throught the wood in a very clean semi circle. You can look at the picture and see how little damage was done. You can also see the corn field it crashed in. It could have just as easily slammed into one of those corn stalks.
THE PROFILE GOD WAS ON MY PLANE AND SAVED ME!

So what caused the crash?

Michael

.....Profile Devil???

Jim had her up and I don't remember what he was doing but the nose dropped and he gave her full ele. and it stalled. It seems the flaperons I have set up on the Knife are extremely extreme. (I have noticed coming out of flat spins the wrong way and trying to get her back she would stall, usually I would just neutralize and hit the ele again) He was trying to get her back with the ele and she just went straight into the ground. I think was just my setup was weird and he didn't know about it. He thought he lost the radio the way she was acting.

I would hand the sticks back to Jim with any plane I owned by the way.

I hear ya...Nobody means to crash...I've got a couple models that are flier friendly and I let people fly them...I tell-em right off... If ya wreck the plane don't worry about it...It would only give me the excuse to buy that model new again...