Here is a short tale of woe about my recent mishap with a P51 Voodoo Mustang park flyer from World Model ( do not ever buy this model)
There is a field beside my house suitable for park flyers. Hence my purchace of the Voodoo.
2 Weeks ago I was doing high speed low level straffing runs the full length of the field. Followed by a savage full up to vertical to narrowly avoid slamming into the trees at the end of the field. I had been doing this for a few weeks now and was getting right bloody cocky about it. This Particular eve I was out doing the same thing, (there is a rumour that I had a couple of beers at dinner time...but that is completely unfounded :twisted: ) So I pulled to vertical at the last minute, the setting sun blotted out the model and a sense of vertigo over whelmed me and SMASH!! right into the top of a tree. 200ft up!
There is stayed for the last 2 weeks or so, and last night I walked down to see if any miracles had befallen it, and lo and behold there it was on the ground

Well actually in a ditch under about a foot of water.:cry:
It is my first true and total anihilation of a model. I do not think anything can be salvaged from this one.
Lesson here> If you put 400 quids worth of new electronics into a cheap piece of balsa and plastic, make sure that when you reach the stage where you are flying recklessly, because you think to yourself 'Sher I can put the gear into a better model if I crash' you factor in the tree and water hazard too :?: