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I expect you have heard that I fell into that perennial electric modellers' trap, the prop bite, one afternoon late last year. I ground-looped the Catalina, and in trying to get the cockpit canopy off so as to switch off and trudge back to the car, must have pushed the throttle stick with my coat sleeve. 3 slices later I had wrenched my hand out of the way and pulled one of the motors off its mount, fortunately without too much damage to either, although both looked much worse than they were. Both the model and my hand were repaired, the Catalina by Mr Epoxy and my hand by Nurse Wendy.
The model must have decided that it had had enough of being flown around the sky, and that if it could not self-destruct by biting me, then it would do so by deliberately changing the TX configuration while I was asleep. The next flight, which was to be its 50th, started with a good clean take-off, then a graceful but terminal wing-over to smack into the ground with a the most terrible crashing noise.
She is currently sitting on a high shelf waiting for a repair assessment, but it does look pretty bad. Nature is much better at glueing things back together...
Ah, the joys of aeromodelling!
Mike Roach
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