First ever flight!!

by Bobby
(Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, UK)

Too excited to worry about the wind, I set out to have just a quick fly with my Parkzone P-51 Mustang...
Launching the plane went well and controlling it for about a minute everything was great - until the wind turned it my way it just came at me at such a speed! (I really should have reduced the throttle, completely forgot!!)

It crashed about 20ft behind me, the wing was broken off and the nose was looking bad.
Totally gutted, I went home and had a go at fixing it, to my surprise it is looking fine. It has gone back together with tape and I'm hoping it will fly ok.
I'm just waiting on the spinner to come in the post, and then I will be back out... as long as it's not windy though!!

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First ever flight!!

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Dec 29, 2007
Beware the wind!
by: Pete

Bad luck Bobby - but a valuable lesson learned! ;-)
Fortunately Parkzone planes have a great back-up of spare parts, but hopefully you won't be needing any more too soon!

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