Happy day, sad day. Got 2.75 flights on the 12S Raptor today. First flight was good, but I hadn't yet properly calibrated my throttle, so I was not seeing full throttle. But it flew just fine, tons of power. Second flight, had the throttle calibrated correctly and man what a rocket ship! Forgot to start my timer so I'm not sure how long I was up, but it was at least 5 minutes.Third flight, was going very well until a buddy called out landing. I was making a downwind pass over the runway at the time, and broke off at mid field to clear him for landing. Got a little far out on me, and I glanced down at my timer to make sure I had started it and to see how much time was left. When I looked back up, I lost orientation and wound up flying away from me, then lost it completely. Nose in 45° full-throttle dive wiped out everything. The debris field was at least 50' long, and it took me some time to find all the parts. One of the lipos wound up all the way under the tree next to the cactus in the upper left side of the pic.
I'm definitely bummed as this was a super flying plane. But I will be getting another sometime in the near future. Will also go 12S on that one. Pretty sure the motor and ESC survived, and I have another JF90 unit to stick it in. The JF90 itself was destroyed.
Some pics I took before flying today, and one of the debris field. I'm standing at the point of impact.
I'm definitely bummed as this was a super flying plane. But I will be getting another sometime in the near future. Will also go 12S on that one. Pretty sure the motor and ESC survived, and I have another JF90 unit to stick it in. The JF90 itself was destroyed.
Some pics I took before flying today, and one of the debris field. I'm standing at the point of impact.
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