My plan was to launch my Kyosho Melody off the hi-start towards a nearby hill, then extend my flight by sloping the hill, which I'd never done before. The spot I launched from was near a large moat that surrounded a nearby building. On video, i have footage of the Melody going about 40 feet up and rolling inverted, picking up speed all the way, I'd never flown inverted at that time, was fighting the sticks all the way down as the plane finally unhooked at ten feet and plunked right into ther water. While it was sad to dunk the electronics inthe water, it preserved the plane perfectly.
I still have that Melody, it's a very pretty little sloper/hlg, with modern micro radio components, it would finally have a truly impressive low wing loading. hmm.... I should pull that baby out of the basement and check it out again... ;-) RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
