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I guess he didn't like it, WOAH....

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Lojik

Lojik

70cc twin V2
vegasking said:
I fully understand, I look back at and wish I would have chosen a different approach to it. I should have posted in the video that the plane was damaged worse than it looked because some are thinking that I smashed it just because I didn't like the way it flew. At almost 55 years old I still make a mistake now and then but I learn from them.
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We are only human, I believe you are right in that assumption that most took it the plane was flyable before being smashed.

I have removed my comments on this also

Life moves on... lets go fly
 
Bunky.F.Knuckle

Bunky.F.Knuckle

150cc
Stoopid is fine, just learn from a mistake if at all possible. For some, it is not possible, and they just keep doing dumb stuff. Like a guy locally, decided to TAKE gov't property off WPAFB grounds without permission. Took it to the local field, grabbed the freq pin, yes, back when we flew on 72 MHz. Some of my friends. including my pops was out flying heli's on a Tuesday nite. Pops was checking out a Huey scale machine in a hover, and this 800mm class machine comes barreling into the pits, just missed 3 people, including pops. Ended up, local guy grabbed the wrong freq pin. Barely made any compensation to the heli he hit on the ground and the one that was flying too.

This wasn't the first time this guy done something like that before. So, just as soon as 2.4GHz come around, I jumped all over it with both feet. I was also even a victim of a "shoot down" as well. I got hosed on the whole deal. I got a new kit, and $1250. Didn't cover the cost of engine repair, new Rx and build.

Wise..... No. Just experienced at certain matters.

Mine was a AeroWorks ARF Edge 540T, the OLD red and white one. I had it 2 years, and it flew ok. Never flew great, but ok enough. I refinished it over the winter and about the 8th flight into the 3rd season, wing blows off in flight. I blew a gasket like I never have before. Had 5 guys out there helping me with the yard sale. I about hit one of them with the wing tube because I was so pissed, and was slinging parts. Yeah, that was my claim to wanka-town.
 
Decal Dennis

Decal Dennis

TEAM EP&G
vegasking said:
The plane just didn't seem to fly as good as it looked which didn't make me happy, I flew it a total of three times and had tried changing the cg two prior times and made sure all my surface alignments were correct and it still had a super bad coupling problem. I have never added any radio mixing to my planes except mixing smoke to throttle. I am not a pro at setting planes up with mixing everything out and don't think a good plane needs to have a lot of it anyway. I took it to the event to see if I could sell it for $300 which was less than half of what it cost retail ($750) I guy ask me to fly it and I was going to let him, but before I let him have the sticks he asked me if it would do a "Heart Attack" so I tried it and when it came out of it at about 30 ft from the ground it went into a flat spin which I wasn't able to pull out from. Maybe a better pilot could have but I didn't, which resulted in it pancaking in on it's belly. When I first picked it up it looked like it had just messed up the landing gear but I noticed once I picked it up that it had cracked both bottom wings at where the wing struts were and had cracked the bottom of the fuse near the bottom wing tube. At that point I knew I wasn't going to try to repair it and should have given it to somebody or something better than I did. I was not mad or angry when I stomped it and at that moment thought it would be cool to smash it not knowing what others not there would think about. I've taken way too much BS about this from some people, a few who know me and a lot who don't even have a clue who and how I am in person. I took the video down because it was going viral and some still want to make nasty comments which I have no control of other than to ask them to stop. I have been this hobby for almost 45 years and plan on it for as long as I can. I believe I've helped this hobby 100 times more than I've ever hurt it and offer to help anyone who may ask for it. I may be a show off at times and like to brag about all my planes which may offend some, but I've worked hard all my life at what I've got and built. I hope and pray this will stop the negativity which I have caused myself!
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Kelly,

The only opinion that matters is your own

Maybe we need to have a "Hate that plane!!" smashing contest in Rolla this year?....I got a least one or two I'd enter with.
 
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