WJCJR1
09-23-2009, 06:53 PM
Flew my T-28D for roughly 5 minutes today before the worst thing that can ever happen happened. The DX5e in my hand beeps just like it does when you first turn it on, the radio was turning on/off, on/off, on/off. It would not stay on long enough to get a hook-up with the plane.
The plane flies away under it's own power, I tried severla time to get the transmitter to turn on and stay on, no luck. The batteries are fresh from the charger, full charge, the darn batteries were not making good contact with the spades.
So the plane flies away over a highway and a couple hundred feet into a farmer's property and then disappears from site. The homeowners were cool and we found the plane right away but man it was so high up there. I climbed the near limbless tree for a bit and took the advice from my neighbor, who was going to be buddy-boxing on the Apprentice with me today, that this is not a good idea. We began chucking rocks/sticks at my baby. Finally hit it enough to get the nose clear juiced her up and got enough thrust out of the damaged prop to hop her out of the tree and onto another tree's canopy. I climbed this more climbable tree and shook the plane out which then my neighbor caught.
Plane is really dinged everywhere!!! Not a single foam part is not dinged somewhere. Few of the dungs border on severe dents.
MAN am I MAD! I have had this no-contact thing happen before but it was right when I put the batteries in and no harm just play with the batteries a bit and all good. Today this came out of nowhere and makes me very nervous.
So a bit of glue, maybe some paint and she should be good to go, nothing else got damaged. I am ssuming all the damage came from the plane hitting the tops of trees and crashing across the thops of trees before cartwheeling into a nice little cradle of branches. She was moving at a more than slow pace I'd say 30-40 moh when she went down.
After the plane retrieval, NO LESS THAN 45 minutes of labor, I went back to our field and fiddled with the batteries, pryed on the spades a bit and got good solid contact. I then set up the Apprentice and buddy-boxed my friend/neighbor for a solid 20 minute flight. He did real well.
Wayne
The plane flies away under it's own power, I tried severla time to get the transmitter to turn on and stay on, no luck. The batteries are fresh from the charger, full charge, the darn batteries were not making good contact with the spades.
So the plane flies away over a highway and a couple hundred feet into a farmer's property and then disappears from site. The homeowners were cool and we found the plane right away but man it was so high up there. I climbed the near limbless tree for a bit and took the advice from my neighbor, who was going to be buddy-boxing on the Apprentice with me today, that this is not a good idea. We began chucking rocks/sticks at my baby. Finally hit it enough to get the nose clear juiced her up and got enough thrust out of the damaged prop to hop her out of the tree and onto another tree's canopy. I climbed this more climbable tree and shook the plane out which then my neighbor caught.
Plane is really dinged everywhere!!! Not a single foam part is not dinged somewhere. Few of the dungs border on severe dents.
MAN am I MAD! I have had this no-contact thing happen before but it was right when I put the batteries in and no harm just play with the batteries a bit and all good. Today this came out of nowhere and makes me very nervous.
So a bit of glue, maybe some paint and she should be good to go, nothing else got damaged. I am ssuming all the damage came from the plane hitting the tops of trees and crashing across the thops of trees before cartwheeling into a nice little cradle of branches. She was moving at a more than slow pace I'd say 30-40 moh when she went down.
After the plane retrieval, NO LESS THAN 45 minutes of labor, I went back to our field and fiddled with the batteries, pryed on the spades a bit and got good solid contact. I then set up the Apprentice and buddy-boxed my friend/neighbor for a solid 20 minute flight. He did real well.
Wayne