Note to self, if it your first time flying an airplane, don't do it on a windy day..

Flight #1: Didn't take off directly into the wind, rolled left and crashed.
Flight #2: Took off directly in the wind, flew fine, make lazy circle but once plan was perpendicular to the wind, it blew the plane sideways into a tree. Post-retrieval pic below.
Flight #3: Fly fine but controls were intermittent. Landed fairly gracefully, but shot the battery out the nose.
Flight #4: Another fine takeoff but more intermittent controls. Wouldn't come out of right turn. Took a header, knocking the propeller off and snapping the tail boom.

At least I got 4 flights out of it which is pretty good for a complete noob in the wind.

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