Well..... Not good. I come back humbled and disappointed in myself. I guess flying a big heavy EDF is nothing like a warbird and apparently the skills don't even mildly translate for me. I took off of our geo-tex runway and this pig used almost every foot of the 275 feet. I didn't think it was even going to make it off the runway. I spent about 3 minutes just trying to get a lay of the land and trim it out. I finally trimmed her, but never really got a good feeling. She flew HEAVY. I felt like I needed almost full throttle to move her around. I've never flown a jet so maybe that's just how it is. It's also kinda a blur considering how it ended, so my perception may be off. I came in for a test landing pass and aborted because I wasn't used to the speed you need to bring this in on. I ate up almost half the runway so I went around for another. I'm not even really sure what happened here, but I stuck the grass right before the runway which actually didn't seem to hurt things too badly, but all of the sudden it did the bucking bronco and she shot into the air and smacked back down before I had enough thrust to get her back up.
I'm gutted. I've got pieces I don't even know how to begin to put back together and fix. I broke the left main, front retract, front gear door, all wires are split, and lots of foam around those parts. I've been thinking hard about what I should have done but honestly I couldn't get used to the way she was flying. It wasn't that out of control too fast feeling people talk about. She just seemed HEAVY. Not sure what to think at this point. Sorry for the cussing at the end of the video. It was just kinda of a reflex. I wasn't mad, just really really sad. Oh well.
Here's the absolute total carnage at the end of this clip:
I'm gutted. I've got pieces I don't even know how to begin to put back together and fix. I broke the left main, front retract, front gear door, all wires are split, and lots of foam around those parts. I've been thinking hard about what I should have done but honestly I couldn't get used to the way she was flying. It wasn't that out of control too fast feeling people talk about. She just seemed HEAVY. Not sure what to think at this point. Sorry for the cussing at the end of the video. It was just kinda of a reflex. I wasn't mad, just really really sad. Oh well.
Here's the absolute total carnage at the end of this clip:
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