Crash.

I went to a FunFly (Where airplane nerds get together and fly airplanes.) yesterday in Hope New Jersey. I brought a couple of planes to fly, and flew the with success. All but one anyhow… I was flying my big plane, and just after I ended my first maneuver (1/2 Reverse Cuban it twitched. Then a second later, the plane goes full power, rolling and diving into the woods. Crunch. Some ASS turned on his radio at the same time I had my radio on. Hence, total loss of control.

So we trek into the forest to try and find some pieces of it. When we find what’s left of the plane, it’ still going nuts. So I unplug it, and grab it…. Only to be burned by a battery that has been pierced by a piece of branch. I am fiery pissed. It’s been a tough couple of weeks for “Team Ziering”

Here you can see half of my wing still lodged in the tree. The forces at work here were INCREDIBLE, the plane probably went in at about 60mph.

Here, You can see the rest of the plane:

If you look closely under the yellow strap you can see the white plastic has melted away from the rest of the battery pack. The brown spot is rust from the battery acid. That’s the mofo that burned me.

Now I’m left with only one option: Build a badder ass airplane.

-Josh Ziering