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Diary Entry 5 - 24 June 2017

Oh yes, tomorrow is Hari Raya... Time really flies I guess. Today seems like I got cursed. When I was returning home in the afternoon, I met with a road accident (I'm fine, that's why I can still sit here and type this entry). And after that, when I got home, I decided to go down to the car park to fly my RC trainer aircraft. I have been flying since I was 9 and 2 years ago I stopped flying due to an important exam  (PSLE). It was only these few months that I went back to flying R/C planes again.

Anyways, I built myself a trainer at the start of this month and had flown it for 5 flights. On the previous flight, the motor fell off mid-flight but I was able to glide it to land.

Today, there were a few people looking at me fly and am I nervous? Hmm not really. This was flight 5 and the last one. I did a hand launch, and completed 2 circuits around the open-air car park. After that, the battery shifted back suddenly which caused the plane to pitch up very hard. It stalled and fell 5 storeys down. When I recovered it, it was a wreck( Will post a photo)

But let's not let setbacks push me down. I still have another aircraft that has been sitting around since the day I stopped flying 2 years ago. The motor might not be powerful enough, but I'll still try tomorrow.

That's all for today, see y'all tomorrow!

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