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This time I was out at our field and flying what a few of us call a "Toot", as seen below. It’s basically a small 2 channel, 15 size sports model aircraft with no throttle or undercarriage. It is flown by tuning the engine to run flat out and hand launching it.

This day, I had been flying it for about 15 minutes, the engine had gone off tune and I was flying it around just waiting for the engine to stop when out of the blue my model exploded. It had actually been hit by a pylon racer that was being test flown for the 1st time. It was moving so quickly, I barely saw it. Both aircraft were totally destroyed.

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