Saracenman wrote:not for me I'm afraid!

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Wimp
The trick is NOT to crash
BUT - if you do ..................
Cyanoacrylate.............. wonderful invention ... back in the air from most incidents in minutes
Only had one real carrier bag incident - lost a plane that went in vertical at full thrutch due to receiver crystal failure
It was one of those moments where you get a demonstration of how sound and light travel at different speeds....... I saw it hit the deck about 150 yds away and saw it explode in a spray of pretty yellow bits ...... 2 seconds later .......
CRUMP ........ quite funny actually
Dug the engine out of an eight inch hole in the soft earth with a penknife - put all the expensive bits in one carrier bag and the disposable wooden bits in another ..... built another plane and re-used all the big pricey bits .... £15 all up to repair/ rebuild and back in the sky in 2 weeks
(Wren gas turbine B52 - total loss - £30,000

Although they did save the turbines (8 of them at £2000 a pop

) and were apparently able to re-use them with new main shafts if I remember rightly)

Brilliant hobby
