When your 33% almost finished fuse is sitting on the building table with the windows open and for some strange reason the wind blows strong enough to send it cartwheeling and breaking the top deck and you are not home to belive it could happen.

Your plane is telling you it needs to fly. You better hurry up and finish it so you can fly it for real.

Sounds like you have a very light fuse. This is a good thing!

Your right, this has happen in one form or another to everyone who builds. Not fun, but it happens.

One way to look at it is that you have all ready crashed, now you have nothing to loose.

Have fun when you do fly it.

tonyc

Oh, I've had some beauts. Holding a just covered wing, seeing a spot that needed additional shrinking, picking up the hot iron, and dropping the wing on the stand the iron just was sitting on.

Best one. I was working on the floor for space (barefoot). I had a soldering pencil set to melt the holes for wingbolts. Set the iron back in it's stand. Stood up and STEPPED ON THE SOLDERING IRON WITH MY BARE FOOT! Boy, you want to see someone do the Mexican Hat Dance around a wing lying on the floor with one foot held up to his face, blowing on it, while hopping around on the other foot.

On the whole, I'd rather patch Monokote.

I seem also to be able to strike a door or doorway every time I pass with my empennage no matter how I try to carry the fuselage.

I fixed the hatch only to realise it doesn't line up nicely anymore with the top of the fuse I will have to live with that,

further inspection reveals some cracks in the engine box and formers in that area. so much for trying to build a nice clean light
no glue spill plane.

I will now try to finish this plane as quickly as possible and avoid the perfectionist mentality, it only causes more grief in times like this.

Amen. Every time I try and do anything to perfection it only serves to remind me of how imperfect the outcome usually is. At any rate, striving for the best you can do will usually result in a more gratifying end result. So what if it has a few dings, no one will see them 100 ft in the air anyway, besides it lends personality to the plane. Yeah...right!

Yeah right is right,

I've been at this for the last 6 months not much time available,
so 1/2 hour here, 1/2 hour there and so on, no time to hurry so tried to be as perfect as possible given the time.

Such is life

stuk my cub wing tip in the ceiling fan!




TWICE

Blame it on the cat!

Well I don't feel like such a DA for sticking the tail of my cap in a ceiling fan TWICE! either!

Note to self: Ceiling fans - No.

Yep big airplanes inside the house and those friggen fans will egt ya into trouble! Luckly it just dented my rudder a little.

Darn it man. Those whirling blades just SUCKED that dude up. I hate it when that happens. If you have fans, once is certain, twice...well, sh*! happens.

Don't you hate it when you build a nice left hand wing and then go on and build another one instead af a matching pair.

Or build two left hand fuse sides. done that more than once.You'd think a guy would learn.

I built a Doghouse extreme and put the servo rails on top the wing

What I really hate is when you have your straight edge out to cut covering with a razor blade and don't notice you have part of your finger overhanging the straight edge! That will make you go running for a bandaid. I also had a exacto knife roll off of my table once and stick in my shoe! Thank goodness I still had my shoes on!