I have not had a lot of luck so far in flight. Either my planes were too heavy, under powered, or too big for the field I was trying to fly in. I finally found me a descent field to fly in and was able to fly my tiny trainer with descent success until a few landings in the heavy dew wilted the wings and destroyed a few props. So I build a new plane similar Andrew Newtons Polydyhedral R.E.T Pusher (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGo3_mt94xI). It's a 5ft wing span KFm2 polydihedal wing, 3 channel trainer with a 9x4.7 pusher prop. After finding a good center of balance, I had a few 5-10 minutes flites. After each flite I checked the battery level as I was flying 2 3S 2200s. Was at 80% battery level.
This is where it all went wrong. Was flying in a counter clockwise orbit about 75 ft off the ground. Went to make my next turn after passing close to over head and realized too late I was getting close to a tree. Went full power, banked right and pulled up. Smack!!!!!! Right into a 100+ year old oak tree ~75ft up. The plane is so buried in the branches of the tree, you can't see it unless you get at the right angle.
There is no way I can get anything up to the level of the plane to try and knock it out or pull it out. Prevailing winds will only drive the plane deeper into the tree. The plane is completely covered in Packing tape so it will be a while before it wilts from the weather and comes out. And I did not put my phone number on the plane.
So, I have basically been sitting here for the last 4 hours on the computer sulking over the loss of about $50 of electronic because of my NOOB stupidity. My streak of 100% returning for the field with unflyable aircraft is still in tact.
Oh well. At least I now know I can build a plane that will fly for a while. Guess I will order some light components so I can build some minis to crash for a while.
This is where it all went wrong. Was flying in a counter clockwise orbit about 75 ft off the ground. Went to make my next turn after passing close to over head and realized too late I was getting close to a tree. Went full power, banked right and pulled up. Smack!!!!!! Right into a 100+ year old oak tree ~75ft up. The plane is so buried in the branches of the tree, you can't see it unless you get at the right angle.
There is no way I can get anything up to the level of the plane to try and knock it out or pull it out. Prevailing winds will only drive the plane deeper into the tree. The plane is completely covered in Packing tape so it will be a while before it wilts from the weather and comes out. And I did not put my phone number on the plane.
So, I have basically been sitting here for the last 4 hours on the computer sulking over the loss of about $50 of electronic because of my NOOB stupidity. My streak of 100% returning for the field with unflyable aircraft is still in tact.
Oh well. At least I now know I can build a plane that will fly for a while. Guess I will order some light components so I can build some minis to crash for a while.