Again!

Vera did not have class today, so we parked at the North River Trail parking lot and walked to get the mail.  First, we walked to the North end of the trail where there is a viewing station and I took a couple of pictures, this is looking upstream from there.  The new camera for the quad was at the post office, so after we got home, I installed it.  I took it out for a test flight, and it was worse than the last one, it locked up after 21 seconds.

Later, I tried it again with a different memory card in it and wouldn't you know it, I got it into a tree.  I was cruising around the antenna above the shop and I went a little further toward Steve and Dianne's.  The wind was funneling right up the little canyon and it blew the quad into this pine tree.  I got the extension pole out and started looking at the tree but I could not see it.  I called Vera out to listen for it, because I couldn't hear it.  She could hear it and thought it sounded like it was in the bush behind me.  I finally went and got my step ladder so I could see on top of the bush, after moving around the bush to a couple of different spots, I happened to look up while on top of the ladder and spotted the light on the quad up in the pine tree.  I could not reach it from the ground with the 24 foot pole, so I moved the ladder over and from there I could reach it.  The first time I touched the branch, it fell clear to the ground.

Vera took a picture of it after she retrieved it out of Dianne's flowers, the only damage was two of the prop guards got broken.  I had bought some spares, so it is all repaired already.  This evening, I got all the hinges glued in on the OV-10, I just have to mount one rudder and the final assemble will begin!