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my lawn darts!!!

BalsaDust

Moderator
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Here is one of my own CRUNCH moments and it was truly a lawn dart when it went in. #kwj48 can attest to that as he was standing next to me when it happened. Had just installed a new elevator swervo and was retrimming the plane when it just pointed straight down and would not respond. Thought I had lost the brand new servo but upon inspection kwj48 and I found that I had a crap servo extension on the elevator. Got it fixed back up though and still flying it.
 

hbollier

70cc twin V2
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It didn't look too bad at first but the only thing holding the motor box on was the covering. Broke right through the anti rotation pin holes and a previous break. Good thing I had a spare new in the box hiding behind curtain #2.
 

Super08

70cc twin V2
Here is one I lost to a battery failure a couple years back. Thankfully the Smart Fly worked as it should and turned off the engine at the time the batteries failed. It sure did hit hard.

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Super08;8236 wrote: Here is one I lost to a battery failure a couple years back. Thankfully the Smart Fly worked as it should and turned off the engine at the time the batteries failed. It sure did hit hard.


But hey, you saved the wing tube!
 

sparkx38

50cc
Here is one of the few that I have had. It hurt extra bad because it was not mine but a 12 year boys. Crash do to a equalizer failure on the elevators. To make it worse the young man had only the maiden flight and it went in on the second flight with me at the sticks. :sorrow: Even though it was nothing I could help, I never felt so bad in my life.




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This is one I from shortly after I started flying.


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Terryscustom

640cc Uber Pimp
sparkx38;8265 said:
Here is one of the few that I have had. It hurt extra bad because it was not mine but a 12 year boys. Crash do to a equalizer failure on the elevators. To make it worse the young man had only the maiden flight and it went in on the second flight with me at the sticks. :sorrow: Even though it was nothing I could help, I never felt so bad in my life.
Ahh, the old elevator equalizer / reverser failure. I remember I bought my first plane with dual elevator servos in the tail and got one of those reverser deals from the LHS. It was a Showtime 120, built with all the best stuff I could but I had not gotten a new radio yet. Maiden flight, third pass the right elevator when full deflection up and that thing went in like a sack of potatoes. Had to dig the brand new O.S. 1.20 out of the dirt.



I've been pretty lucky, only thing I've toasted since I started flying all gas 5 years ago is a Pilot Extra.....talking to a guy and forgot to fill the gas, I was dipping my tail in some corn and went to blast out straight up full throttle at about 30 feet and engine died. The scatter path was pretty confined on that one.
 
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