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So we were driving home from vacation
up at Lake Erie, and the Air Hog fell off the top of the luggage and the
dog (actually the auxiliary dog Jamaica, the lobotomized retriever) sat on the
Air Hog.
Broke off the vertical, bent the heck
out of the tail boom, generally warped the entire EPP airframe.
I straightened out the plastic tail
boom (try that with carbon fiber!) put the tail back together and discarded the
superfluous wing struts. The Air Hog looked fine. Only it
wouldn't fly. When you tossed it, it banked, rolled and nosed
in.
Finally under microscopic inspection I
detected that the tail boom had some residual bend to the right, almost
undetectable to the human (or at least Nagel) eye, but enough to cause a violent
rudder roll.
So the Air Hog is repaired and the dog
is forgiven. Two lessons here:
1. The cheap POS little Air Hog Aero Ace is
actually a precision piece of manufacture. Who'd have thunk
it?
and
B. Get yourself a hound dog, not a lobotomized
retriever.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium Procurator
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