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Projeti 1.1 | 1.0


Crash debris

3D jigsaw puzzle

Wings intact

Motor mount intact

Canopy

CF prop shattered

nose

Stern

Fuselage

Bicycle-compatible backpack mount

Backpack

Backpack
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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