[NSRCA-discussion] Bye Bye Genesis :(

[R. LIPRIE]

Well guys today was the last day that my Genesis will fly.  Was at the field trying to practice for next weekends competition, after going five weeks without practicing.  I went and set it out on the runway, and plugged in my arming switch.  There was about a 10 to 15 knot wind, not to bad, so I took off.  And just as I lifted off the rudder stuck itself into full left rudder and stayed there, so my bird became a twirling fortress 3 ft from the ground, I hit full power and was knife edging, trying to keep the airplane from snapping over, I believe I did about a 10 yard circle, and finally got it back to the runway where I was still on knife edge, but then the wind gusted pulled the wing up, and flipped it over 5 ft from the ground, and then.  LAWN DART !!!!.  Bye Bye Genesis.  I believe ya'll know the rest.  So now I'm trying to find another airplane to fly for next weeks competition, as you can see I procrastinated about getting another pattern plane just in case anything happened to this one.  So now I'm stuck in a whole.

Matthew Liprie
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