well, lost my trusty trainer today...After roughly 50 hours flying time my superstar select met a horrible demise...Shouldn't have been flying in the 1st place, i went against my better judgement and flew in 12+mph winds, gustin to close to 20, 1st 2 flights were uneventful, should have packed it up and went home after that. 3rd flight, was about 40' up and lost it in the sun, by the time i saw it again the wings were horizontal to the ground, couldn't tell if it was going away from me or coming towards me, couldn't react in time to save it as it was going so fast. Went straight into the ground and had to dig the engine out of about 3" of dirt. Oh well, have a shiny new big stik 60 on the workbench which i'm just about finished putting together. I will be alot more careful with that one. I keep hearing from fellow enthusiast someday you will crash the plane, i kept thinking, naw, not me.....hahaha....
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20 years ago