The continuing saga of my quest for a profile fun fly
I received a brand new already built Tower "Extra Special" profile fun fly plane in a trade. It turned out to be a royal piece of shit. The plane was a great flyer, it just happened to be built by a drunken monkey with two left hands, no thumbs, and one eye. I had to re-cover the entire airframe, and the vertical stab fell off in my hands when I tore the old (poorly done) covering off. The horizontal stabs didn't look much better, but there was not much I could do for them (Hint: fore shadowing). I put an OS 46 fx with an APC 11x5 prop on the front. The first two flights went really well. These little profiles are a real blast to flip around in the sky. By the third flight I was beginning to expand the envelope a little. I switched to ludicrous high rates, and was doing some rolling circles in the middle of the field. It looked like I hit a white pigeon, but it turns out the white flash I saw leaving the rear of the plane was the right half of the hor. stab. It did some really cool but yet unnamed aerobatic manuevers, then headed right for terra firma. I was able to pull back on the throttle, and then watched as I drilled a 46 size hole in the ground. I have another Extra profile plane that I am gonna give the once over--twice, then re-cover it and give it another try. It seems to be a lot better built, if not a little heavier, but it is god-awful pink and yellow and orange, with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers written all over it. Pictures of both planes coming soon.
