It did not

This glorious picture is symbolizing todays tests. At first I went out just with the woodman. I assumed, the glue specifically for Styropor would keep everything in place and it would just be a mather of aerodynamics and heat, wether the test would be a success or not. As you can see, it turned out differently. I started the plane with normal gas and the nose immediately began to sink. With a bit more throttle It came up again and right as I iniciated the first turn the wooden plate keeping the engine and the propeller fell off and the plane fell to the ground. All in all this took about three seconds.

As I’m used to by now, I went back home, charged the battery pack and prepared the woodman for repairing. Little did I know that they would have to wait.

As there was still daylight, I took the Shark for it’s test aswell. I remembered from the last flight that it liked to turn to the right even though I did not know why. It must have had a hard landing where something broke but with the repairings that I’ve done, I thought this’d be fixed.

As the Shark took off for the first time, it came to ground quickly in a sharp right turn. I adjusted the settings and let it take off again. This time, the Shark described a large right turn but it was impossible for me to correct it properly. Instead, as I got a bit stressed, I acceleratet the plane too much and it crashed violently. I had to collect it in pieces.

The Shark in pieces

The cabin fell off during the crash. This saved the camera which was installed on the pilots helmet. The nose that was already a bit weakened by previous crashes broke off and so did the engine. The propeller was lying somewhere in the grass and the wings took some cuts aswell.

All in all it is too much to repair. Especially the nose which I think was tilted to the right which caused the plane to always turn to the right, was so destroyed that I did not see any chance of repairings. Especially not after my glorious work on the Woodman was such a quick failure. 

As I am still far from being a good pilot I decided to order a new plane. This time it will not be Multiplex as I can not afford to continuously crash such expensive toys. I have to get something way cheaper. In the internet I found offers that are RTF ("Ready to fly” which means they are completly built and include all the necessary parts) and cost about a quarter of the Woodman. I ordered one and we will see soon, what differences there might be.

There is a video of the sharks two last flights but it’s really not entertaining and it lasts about four seconds so I’ll spare you this.