Two bad ones in a row... Three years ago I was really just getting into sailplanes and had been appropriately steered toward an EPP glider as my first RC airplane. I had made a beginners mistake and mounted the on/off switch on the outside of the fuse. Predictably I launched the plane and it did a wonderful hispeed arc right into the ground. Wondering what happened I ran over to the plane, picked it up, turned it back ON, wiggled the servos and stretched the histart back out again. I went back to launch again and the same thing happened! Except this time in my frustration I threw my hands high in the air... and my transmitter went flying out of my hands, ending up about 20 feet away (luckily only the antenna tip ended up in a puddle)!
Fortunately both the plane and TX were fine. I have since learned the joys of the Hollyday switchjack, and have installed it on all my planes. Gotta love EPP... two crashes at what looked like 60 mph... and only a dimpled nose to show for it. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 4/16/2005 8:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RCSE] New post: hi starts OK, time to change the subject from trashing everyone and each other---- its a friendly sport. What is your favorite hi-start story-- not winch, high start. Crashes, short high start setups, 2M 3M etc, Share some knowledge and fun stories Thanks for the BW tom RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
