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I Had A Really Bad Day Last Wednesday

My Ooooops

My Model Tech, Magic Extra was a great flying airplane but I had the control throws set way too high.  I had been thinking of setting up a high rate and a low rate so I could continue to enjoy the high rate while I was doing aerobatics, but I would have low rate for a little slower response during landings.  Exponentials would also have helped but the particular Transmitter I was using didn't have that feature.   I didn't make that change soon enough.

On Wed. we had some pretty high wind gusts.  About 3 feet off the ground, during a landing, the wind flipped me into a right bank.  When I flipped it back I over corrected.  At that point I decided to abort the landing.  So when I rolled it back, I gave it full throttle, and up elevator.  But once again I over corrected my roll which left me inverted, full throttle, up elevator and 3 feet off the ground.  It hit going straight down right in the middle of the asphalt runway.

Good by Magic Extra.

 

sybil said:
 
Looks like this will require another trip to Mike's Hobby shop!
 
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Hudson said:
 
What she said!!!
 
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