[Flypaper]

Hillman:
Were there any melted wires between the speed controller and the motor or the speed controller and the reciever ? Just wondering where the short actually was. If none of these wires were melted it would have to have been in the speed controller.

[hillmanr2]

It looks to me like one of the micro chips in the speedcontrol caused the fire. I tried to take a pic but my digital camera won't focus on it as it's to small. I have flown it and everything is flawless with the new batt and speedcontrol except for my thumbs. Pancaked the gear off doing a Torque roll while trying to touch the rudder on the ground.

I'll tell you one thing I've learned. If I ever have a large electric plane and it goes in, I would check the batt and speed control outside in some sand or on asphalt out off the plane.

[Flypaper]

Was that touching the top of the rudder or the bottom I usually end up touching both wing tips too.

[hillmanr2]

end off the rudder. It was a torque rolling tailslide. I actually pulled off 2 of them before the unpleasantness.