darkred87T
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It took me weeks to build this thing and it's been hanging in my garage for a year. Well, I decided to buy a cheap RTF (ready to fly) trainer plane before I flew this one. The RTF came with a DVD simulator which I got good at and I also flew the RTF plane with success. I decided it was finally time to fly the Eaglet. After a few turns of the prop by hand, the little .15 engine kicked over and I taxied the plane across a vacant baseball infield. It took off beutifully, but when I got it in the air, it was all over the place. Out of fear of crashing it immediately into the ground, I took it up higher and tried to level it off. On the last turn, it just fell out of the sky and did a nose dive right into the ground. It's a total loss and if you look close, the carburetor is stuffed with infield dirt. I haven't tried to turn the motor over for fear of making it worse but I'm pretty sure it's a loss too. Oh well, I'm not looking for sympathy, but thought I would share some carniage pics.