The railings and an Oops!

By 11:30 this morning, I was all done with the bench and the railings.  Some stain in a few weeks and we will be all done.  We spent the rest of the day organizing the left over lumber and stacking it under the shop.

Later that evening it seemed pretty calm so I got the Champ out for a flight, I have just launched it in the picture.

Well, it wasn't calm over by the shop, a gust of wind caught it and it is headed for a date with the 2 meter antenna!  After it hit the antenna, it ended up on the roof below the loft windows.  It was sitting on its wheels, so I figured I could take off and fly it down.

Wrong, it came around this end of the shop and hit the guy wire for the HF antenna.  It was right by the lower end of the wire with one wheel in the gutter, as I walked around the corner it fell to the ground.  When I went to check it over, the battery was missing.  I got the ladder and went up on the roof expecting to find it in the gutter, but there was nothing there.  We checked the bushes and grass down below that spot, but we never found it.  Now I need a new wing and a battery.