Rv 4-49...airfoils yak...rest in pieces!

[stuart]

it was a bad day today to fly.....charged up batteries this morning cause last night said breezy today..but it was beautiful all the way to the field . brought the planes RV 4 -40,the profile airfoils yak[foamy],and the funjet ultra. enough batteries charged to fly each twice.building the dynaflite bot can wait!!

first up,the RV 4 40...club members surrounded me at my table and poured a ton of compliments on my covering job. i plug in the power and took of in 30ft...climbed right up to high enough to smile from ear to ear and think"sweet!!!!now i can trim....what the hll." she did a wing over and spiraled down to bury the motor 8" into the dirt. i believe i had an esc failure since i used a 85amp turnigy with a 5amp bec. i felt a dislike for the rv4 build from the first build of it 2 years ago. so i put the cheap stuff back in it thinking it didn't deserve better. i was very wrong,she was beautiful and deserved a power 60 eflite with the cc100amp ice i have sitting in a drawer.[must say i call this crash 100% pilot error...china cheap killed my bird].when i bought this esc years ago,it had just come out. after installing it the reviews were mixed by user's and i should have junked it then.

so the winds picked up to much for most of us to fly,but during a brief lull in the gusts i decided i wanted to fight the wind for fun ,wind sock wasn't blowing that hard and i came to fly...sooo up went the yak...lol...my throw away plane i call it.... well ,the wind won! go figure...i went up high enough to be flying a kite and thats how it looked..trying to fly directly into the wind at full throttle i watched it flying back wards,put it into a dive to flare and cut throttle as she dropped down the hillside out of site. would have been great if the wing didn't get ripped off on the landing. not worth repairing do to added weight.for $60 it's wroth replacing.but i'm not going to.

so the picture of the garbage bag is what happens when you combine 2 planes together. shheeeeeshh! what great day .....[really was great] one positive note,i p/u the funjet ultra and carried it carefully back to the car in great,unmaidened shape.

[gramps2161]

Stuart that bites loosing any plane but 2 of them back to back that's just not right.

You never know with a ESC or UBEC when they are going to give up the ghost. I lost 3 planes last year only thing that was a common item on all three was a name brand UBEC never did hear from them what was the issue never will buy another item from them again either.

Made me laugh when you said you carefully carried the funjet back to the car I would of too.

[stuart]

gramps,we gotta laugh at times like these,i surprised i didn't slam the door on the fun jet.

[gramps2161]

Stuart that would of added insult to injury for sure!

[max2112]

Dang! Sorry to read about your planes, Stuart.

I have 2 models myself that I have knowingly left B- quality electrics in because they aren't my "top shelf" birds.

Looking forward to read about the FunJet maiden!

[stuart]

thanks for commiserating with me on the crash max,i felt really annoyed to have finally finished the RV. also tossed about the idea of building another one,but i have to research what other companies make the RV kit.

today i at least put the idea of building another rv on the back burner for more fun projects. thats what takes our focus off losses...the gains of having so much fun to be had flying and building other planes..lol