OUCH! LOL!!!! I can only imagine what mesquite does to a foamy! Its like a reverse dart board.
well kinda, only a lot worse at 50/60 MPH...imagine, 8ish, summer morning, NO wind, a "need to be fly'in day". I take the little cub up and she is fly'in great, she's a little nose heavy, but I fly'em like that here in West Texas, the wind is always blowing, but it's unusually still this morning. I bring her by me kinda slow, and shes fly'in good. I give some throttle, she goes strait up to about 300 feet, and stalls.The hammer head is pretty sloppy, but I'm at 300 feet, so no big deal. The nose heavy plane does some pretty crazy flopp'in around up there and winds up in an inverted dive. I'm thinking no big deal, I'm still at about 200 feet and just put in a fresh battery, this should be cool, but this nose heavy plane is taking a lot of up elevator and full throttle, to make the turn. I'm just going to make it...and at about 50 feet, It spun the prop off of the motor. Of course panic set in, I bobbed and should have weaved.
If you are a hunter, then you know what a 30-06 bullet sounds like hitting the body of a dear, on a crisp clear morning. That's what my plane sounded like going in the top of that tree, with about a 3 second delay and some of the pieces falling out the bottom. the rest hung up in the tree by the electronics...

I've finished two planes since...can't make myself rebuild this one yet. Yea, I know...They all have expiration dates! It's about time to build another one.
Tom