Looking back, I would never do this again, but I built a Top Flite Antares and installed a captive release towhook on it - I think that's called compounding your problem.
Anyway, I was very green, very nervous, and my first couple flights were not much more than hops off the line (at the West Carrollton field for some of you old time Dayton fliers). I eventually got my nerve up, and my brother and I took it out to a large field / parking lot outside of town. Needless to say, the captive release failed to release on the first hard launch.... I still have the image of this huge (to me, at the time) ship flying control-line style, my brother yelling at me to release... I eventually ended up with the plane flying at me, full speed, about 5 feet off the ground from the far end of the line. I guess I panicked because the last thing I remember of the flight was the plane violently going up and down 5 and 11 feet respectively, pancaking on the parking lot, and pieces of plane sliding to my feet. The way the wing flexed at the end, it almost looked like it was flapping like hell, futilely trying to avoid the pavement. I've done the other big faux pas's, RX off, wrong program, etc, but this one still stands out as my most memorable histart mishap. 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
