After far too few flights 1.0 behaved like, well, a homesick devil.
(Its one-mistake-high altitude was higher than its can't-see-it altitude.)
The official euphemism is Controlled Flight Into Terrain. Here are more:
- balsa reforestation
- deceleration trauma
- interior access enhancement
- lithobraking
- noncorrectable airspeed reduction
- one-point landing
- spontaneous disassembly
- terminal descent
- structurally compromising impact
- unrecoverable altitude excursion
While I'm digressing, "Camille Goudeseune" is a scary predictor of my need
for CA and epoxy: "No Idle Acme Glue Use." Here's more
anagrams.
Still no heavy reinforcements, but quite a bit of epoxy reassembled
the three-dee jigsaw puzzle into 1.1.
The CF prop snapped on impact, whanging the
motor shaft presumably milliseconds before. So I'm down to the stock speed-400 can
and Gunther Spoon. Which might be a good thing. Certainly it's draggier now, so
80mph orthogonal planetary encounters will be easier to avoid.
Well, a very few more flights and it got lost in a cornfield. Radio trouble... I
suspect that the rx-antenna connection got damaged in the 1.0-1.1 transitional event,
because the swizzle-stick antenna behaved fine in version 1.0.
Some mariners, when they accidentally drop a screwdriver
overboard, are known to say "Oh well, another offering to Neptune."
Is there a Greek god of cornfields? Because
losing a plane in 1.5 meter corn is pretty much the same as losing it
in a marina's few meters of saturated goose-turd solution:
zero visibility. Even after carefully marking the line (I'd say point,
but my judgement of distance is suspect) on which it came down, five
hours of gentle bushwhacking and crouching/peering turned up nothing.
Battery probably ejected: thumb-wiggling made no servo or prop noises
to help find it.
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