NZFF

You could almost mistake those photos and believe it your own radio controllled model plane

Looks like it ran out of NRG

The owner has parked it at Ardmore Flying School a few times in the past, it's a nice looking plane and very fast! Shame to see it involved in (another) incident but at least it's not a write-off.

Syncop8r wrote:

QUOTE (Syncop8r @ Nov 9 2009, 12:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looks like it ran out of NRG

Very witty

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE (Trolly @ Nov 9 2009, 11:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looks like a very well executed FLWOP, not sure why the undercarriage was retracted though.

If it was me I would definitely land it with the wheels up, firstly:

As it is such a small place you would want to land and stop smartly, instead of trying to break with the wheels and stop before them houses (or what ever obstacles). Secondly:

As the Glassairs have a pretty weak nose wheel assembly, landing off airfield I would want to eliminate he risk of the nose gear collapsing and the aircraft flipping on its back. Not from a damage point of view, but escape. Imagine trying to get out of that thing up side down... especially if a wee fire has started....

Also, it looked as though he was on a hill and if the brakes failed he would've been at the bottom.

Just to comment on what I said previously, the aircraft has evidently changed owners since it was based at Ardmore.