Well I was about to launch my lanier combat plane. I tossed it and gave a little up elevator, the plane started to go down so I gave it a bunch of up elevator. And then BAM it nose dived straight into the ground. Broke the prop, no other damage. I just about died laughing though. It went up so graceful but came down so hard. So funny though. Nearly killed me. Gotta love combat planes.
Chuck

Your lucky you did not outside loop right in your nose. Those combat wings can manouver pretty tightly.

I hear this happening ever sooooooooo often and wonder if some of these"reversed settings" are or could be due to children or grand children finding the remote sitting around and deciding to play with the switches. I have been at friends houses and see their little kids playing with the remotes[:@] and I remind my buddies to CHECK them switches. The children are just curious, but, that could prove costly in some cases. Scott



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Well I was about to launch my lanier combat plane. I tossed it and gave a little up elevator, the plane started to go down so I gave it a bunch of up elevator. And then BAM it nose dived straight into the ground. Broke the prop, no other damage. I just about died laughing though. It went up so graceful but came down so hard. So funny though. Nearly killed me. Gotta love combat planes.
Chuck
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Sorry to hear about that, and please dont take this as a flame, but as someone mentioned earlier, it is happening more and more often.
What happened to a good pre-flight and flight controls check prior to take off?

Glad to hear that the plane was ok though, minus prop.