Remnants of mid air crash  First flight of the day, only two planes in the air..... and we found each other....

Beautiful Plane, Sad Ending, Better Rebirth!  Well, to start this off right: I've been flying for a year and a half. Built my first plane when I was 9 or so, but my parents divorced and I no longer ...

Hand launch gone wrong!  I was getting ready to fly my Hobbico Superstar EP, everything was ready to go. I decided to hand launch it because it was its first flight and it was ...

Thank God for soft mud!  Something went real wrong and I spun in and crashed in a real soggy field. The photos show what I found when I reached the crash site.
Because of the ...

Blender in the Basement SebArt Suhkoi 50S  I had just finished building a SebArt Suhkoi 50Ss. It was sitting on a stand in my basement. The batt was hooked up and the plane was armed with the transmitter ...

Dumbthumbs and Duraplanes  I own several Duraplanes, they are tough but very breakable. Coming in for a landing I was bringing it in toward me and made a rookie mistake; a gust of ...

Snowing foam  My friend was flying a 30% Cap 232 and he didn't see the small Slo-V parkflyer and the foam profile plane flying 20 or so feet in the air.
He came around ...

RIP RTF ParkZone Spitfire  Being in the Military I wanted to get a small electric rc plane so I could readily fly when I wanted to. With help from my wife I opted for the RTF Spitfire ...

Some you hardly find  Fingers, thumbs and dumb newcomer stalled somewhere on landing approach into pine forest surrounding our field .
It took five days of searching using ...

Flames in the Sky  Many years ago as a keen teenager hoping to learn more from the ancient ones, I gazed in awe at a two meter Mig 15 that the Prof had built over many months....

Learning to fly RC  I mastered my Slow Stick and figured I could fly my Avistar 40 just fine...
My Avistar was designed to be powered by a .40 glow plug engine, but I decided ...

Afraid of heights with a Piper Cub!  This summer my twin brother and I decided to build matching Piper Cubs. After a few weeks of building we were finally ready to hit the field...
It had ...

Injured Seagull Arising Star  My Seagull Arising Star gas plane (follow this link to see it pre-crash. Unfortunately it doesn't look that good anymore.
A word of advice for all you ...

Aeromaster Heartbreak  I bought a beautiful Aeromaster bi-plane already built from a hobbyshop. It was flown a couple of times before I got it. I took it to the field and took ...

Rocket powered Spitfire  So, we have all been there, walking towards the broken wreckage of your plane thinking "Why did I ** insert stupid manoeuvre here **?!", but as I hinted ...

Bad luck with 4 channels and 60 engines  I had built a real nice plane that flew great. Where I fly there is the field and then a step down to the woods.
The day of the crash I started the engine ...

5 O'clock Charlie  I gave my son Jake his first RC plane for Xmas, unfortunatly the local hobby store sold me an advanced plane and not a starter/novice one. My mistake for ...

Density Altitude is real!  I was headed to the mountains for the day, it was summer hot but nice, so I thought I'd bring my plane and see if I could find a level place for take off ...