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After a successful maiden flight in strong winds I was confident about flying the Frobisher again in kinder weather. The first flight of the day went really well although did show the difficult ground handling characteristics. The second flight ended in disaster. Powered up after pointing into wind but even with rudder the Frobisher yawed around almost into down wind direction. I should have abandoned the take off run but foolishly continued and once in the air it stalled. I corrected but it immediately tip stall over the other way and crashed. A sad end to a beautiful model but hey...it's just a hobby !

Sharing this experience so that others might learn from my mistake. To err is human and I think the most important thing is to understand why it happened and try not to do it again. I should have abandoned the take off and waited for the wind to reduce. Simple.

Ouch!! That sucks.

Saw a bit of that when I used to help out friends in NZ way back when.
Worst ones were a Stuka and a Fokker D7 , both were total write offs.
That’s when I gave up on aspirations of model aircraft flying !
I went to 10th scale off road car racing.
Crash-no consequences!

Sorry for your loss mate

The Fokker D-7 was the best!

Definitely a BIG ouch , on the first flight I was thinking it looked a bit skittish don't know if it was.

That's too bad, it was a beautiful model. On most days my planes came home looking like that! I sucked at flying! Only 4 times did I ever come home with an intact plane! As an expert RC flyer once told me "Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory"! Thankfully this doesn't apply to RC tanks!

Cheers,
Eric.