I had my rx batt connection come loose after a hard pull to the vertical .

She continued strait up and started to loop(all by itself [X(])........I felt absolutly SICK[:'(]
As it proceeded to do not one but TWO more 700ft loops as I watched ,right at the top of the last loop it pointed itself strait down still W/O throttle....well,the rest should be pretty clear.

Mike

To bad that you can't just plant a tree there. Looks looks the hole is deep enough! Sorry about your loss. Sulivan makes some cheap servo connector locks. Cheap investment in a planes future. That is a great hole though.

If you plant planes in a field, will they grow?

I don't know, but if another one does grow in it's place i'll be a happy guy

Here is one of just the hole after I pulled the motor/firewall/and nose gear out[X(]
The date on the pics are wrong..It re-sets everytime the batts are taken out.
This Happened yesterday afternoon.

I have only seen one crash site that rivals that for hole digging ...its amazing when the BACK of the firewall is below ground !

I hope you save as much as possible but that looks like broken EVERYTHING!

Man, that looks like it would be an expensive way to build a fence...

NorfolkSouthern

I would just pile in all the parts and bury it there. Don't even have to break out the cleaning bottle.
Sorry you lost your plane though.

wow sorry to see that but WOW!

Here is some reconstruction photos
A little epoxy and she'll be...........yeah right

good thing that wasn't a potatoe field... you'd have gotten a couple of 'em. Sorry to see holes like that!

have you tried duct tape?

Jet you to i had same thing happen to my poor extra yester afternoon at 5:35 had a hard landing the flight b4 due to some crosswind and it knocked the connection loos on the battery and then my dad took it up full throttle and it kept going and going then into a little knife edge then down and down i was like you know ok dad ppull up he said oh **** i aint got controle i didnt htink nuttin of it cause he did that to me b4 but he got closer i was like ok ok pull up then it hit but ur lucky u still got the front part of ur fuse mine hit at about 100 MPH str8 down and nothing left of the fuse but little pieces my stomach droped and i near cried turns out when my dad took off we think the reciver slide back and ripped the batt out so i was bummed big time

R.I.P EXTRA
July 31st 2006-Feburay 25 2007 5:35PM

That looks like some realy good top soil. Bet you don,t have any truble geting plants to grow there.

As soon as I saw the words potato field, all I could think is that plane reminds me of potato salad!

You can't use duct tape..... it'll add too much weight!!

Only hole I've seen deeper than that was by a YS 1.40 at half throttle. A friend's Patriot went in at about a 45-degree angle after his TX crapped out on him. The hole went all the way to the leading edge of the wing and it took us a while to pry the engine out of there.

You would be amazed at what some heat shrink tubing over a servo/or/battery connection will do to keep those things together.

i once saw an alpha 60 trainer loose the elevatorcontrol rod end. it was very high up so when he said i have no elevator...there was plenty of time for us to look up and follow it in.

it came down in the feild like a meteor and make the most sickening thud i have heard so far.

i guess this would fall under the #%$@ happens catagory

sorry for your loss

man, wouldn't it be cool if you could plant the remains of the plane, and then two years later, there's a nice "airplane tree" growing there?

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anyway,, leading cause of crashes at our field seems to be Rx battery getting disconected...
tie some fishing line around those suckers! i use electrical tape carefully, and it really holds em together.

sorry you lost the plane, , ,

but you know there's only two types of planes..

.. those that crash, and those that are gonna crash!

Sorry for your loss. I lost my 60 extra like this. Now I tape all my connections. Live and learn. Mine disconnected as I pushed for an outside loop, and it hit the ground at full throttle probably almost inverted but not quite. the engine was found 300 yards from the fuse!

YES....they do grow back....but you have to water them real good!!

And they say r/c pilots don,t make good comeadins (sorry I never was good at spelling)

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I had one go by me like a meteor two weeks ago, I'll never forget it. The guy flying it never shouted anything.