[Claudius]

I am at area 51 today

So is my Stinson... perhaps permanently.

   

Most remarkable thing is how utterly unremarkable an incident it was.

Was a good distance out, but not silly far (had good sight and orientation), just banking back towards the field (not overly aggressively, and at a good speed) when it just kept on turning and headed down out of sight (while I mashed wildly at the sticks hoping for some evidence of control to return) over the south-eastern scrub.

Don't believe it was pilot error, and I've previously thought the term "glitch" is used a bit too hastily, so on reflection I won't rush to that While doing a control check, I thought I caught an aileron servo making a click and then catch momentarily, but it all seemed to be working properly after a thorough check (and, ironically, still seemed to do so afterwards, albeit wedged 10-12metres up that tree). So, scratching my head a bit... would love to get it back someday and perhaps find out, but (as Gazza pointed out) it couldn't be more perfectly wedged if I'd tried.

Thanks to Gazza (aka. eagle eyes) and Wayne for helping find and try to retrieve it.

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