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- From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: R/C Glider crashing!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.175145.12476@informix.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:51:45 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.085016.7975@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- I have had plenty of crashes in my first 4 hours of flying (slope soaring, in
- my case). The most humiliating was in strong erratic wind - I threw it out and
- while I fumbled to gain control, it jumped right over my had and nosed into the
- ground _behind_ me.
-
- We sure crash a lot of planes on Milagra Ridge (I know, speak for myself!).
- Yesterday I found a sheared-off 2-foot section of foam wing in a ditch there.
-
- Amazingly, my Super Cheetah has been handling the crashes with great
- resiliency! Repair times have been reasonably brief (even from dead-in nose
- crunchers), often just tape-and-glue work in the field. The Duralene fuse is
- everything it's cracked up (bad choice of words :>) to be.
-
- I did manage to _avoid_ a likely crash the other day, though - flying with a
- low ceiling of fog, my plane completely disappeared for about 10 seconds in a
- cloud. ("Let's see, where is that plane likely to reappear??") I refrained from
- touching my controls until it reappeared and then brought it back on course.
-
- Rob
-