in a word..."everything"! Had a picnic at my brother-in-law's today. He's got a nice property... pond, gentle sloping hill... relatively wide open. or so I thought. In fairness it is pretty big. Trees down one side by the house, a good swath of open grass, and a bit windy today. But as I was quick to find out, it wasn't an obstacleless open field, and the winds with the sloping land and the various breaks in the trees quickly made it interesting to say the least! My P51 mini will fly no more. There isn't a glue light enough. I did manage to tape it up...three times. But the last "landing" did it in. It'd be easier to rebuild anyways! I didn't come short-planed today! Out came the mini corsair between the P51 carnage. A quick crash, a broken prop. Only post-crash inspection showed that my last repair had the power pod with an obscene upward pitch angle that made control interesting to say the least. Plane #2 to become a wall hanger. Out came the simple cub. Easier flying, but the wind and the obstacles got me to panic. Just a broken prop thankfully, but I didn't have a spare to continue flying. Finally to the mini scout. several rough landings and a broken prop. thankfully that's it... I wasn't going to come home with everything destroyed...I flew it a few more times and it came home ready to fly another day. I wish I could say that about the other three!
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Not looking bad at quick glance, but the thrust angle on the corsair is going to be a problem, and the overall fuselage damage on the P51 is extreme.
I'll probably attempt repairs but they aren't going to fly the same
So what should I build now!?
