Well, John C. and I decided we just had to try some flying this PM. I had been wanting to give the A-10 a go and after just a little encouraging (goading) from John I decided to take it off after having taxied all over the ball court. This A-10 with the dual Himax brushless motors was MUCH heavier than previous A-10's I have crashed, but this one took off on a diagonal on the ball court and use every inch of it and hung about a foot off the ground for the next 10 feet before climbing nicely and with a smooth feel to about 50 feet quickly. I flew it around the park about 3 times and after seeing that it was flying nicely and that the trims and CG were just about dead on, decided to try to figure out a way to land it. With the gear on it, I had knew I was going to have to make some kind of shallow landing somewhere and come in as slow as possible to keep from ripping the gear off. Turns out I didn't have to worry about that at all, because a head first dive to the ground beats a shallow turn and glide for getting you to the ground in a hurry any time. The impact was spectacular. The main wing and the canapoy were about the only thing I salvaged. Luckily the slope kits for this aren't to bad, so I plan to build again, and see if I can get the hang of approaches with this thing. At first I thought it was pilot error that had caused the crash but in thinking about it, I remembered that I had put one of the wing decals of the Air Force insignia on upside down so the point of the star was facing the wrong way, so I am sure that was the problem. I will certainly be more careful next time and put that on facing the correct way. I am sure glad that more of you weren't there to witness that. I feel the shock might have been to much. Until next time... maybe we can fly some this week. I still have a plane or two left to try. Oh, and John didn't really goad me into flying it. I was ready, just needed the encouragement. :) Bill Beavers Director of Technology Vilonia School District beaversb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://vilonia.k12.ar.us __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com