Went to fly the Parkzone Radian on a breezy afternoon at Rancho San Antonio with the kids. The wind was high enough to move the Radian around the ground while I turned on the transmitter. Fortunately, I launched the Radian off the drop-off at the edge of the field since it dived down a bit before I increased the throttle and the Radian went up into the air. I’ll have to give the plane more throttle with my next launch. A did a spiral dive with the Radian by pushing the right stick to the lower right corner. I gave E the controls, and told him to only move the right stick and leave the throttle off. I noticed the Radian started to dive at a high rate of speed since he decided to increase throttle and put down elevator on the controls. With the wings flexing up and down, I took the controls from him, cut the throttle, and slowly pulled the Radian up. Another 100 feet and the Radian would have hit the ground and broken up into a lot of pieces. I’m glad I had magnets in the wings so they wouldn’t separate under stress. I had a really good landing this time by bringing it down under some power and then cutting throttle with the Radian about 3 feet above the ground. With the headwind, the Radian quietly drifted to the ground.
