I managed to land my EPP wing on our football (soccer) stadium awning in September 2016 - and there it sat for the last four months. I saw that the wind had finally blown the wing off the stadium yesterday but didn't see it anywhere and figured someone had found it and taken it home. Then today it decided to snow and I was walking around the football field and low and behold there it was on the edge of the field upside down and covered with snow. If it hadn't snowed someone would probably have seen it earlier. I was really happy though I figured it wasn't much good.
Took it home, plugged in a battery and everything except for one servo worked. Amazing. Then thought since the lipo isn't puffed I would try charging it. So checked voltage, zero volts. Charged it for 30 seconds as an NiMH to get a charge in there and then balance charged it. Looks ok.

When the weather clears up will replace the servo and try it out.
Was a total unexpected surprise. Been through many raining days and nights and two snowstorms and still works.

Update: flew it the next day. Flew around a few times, crashed it and the nose broke right off. Evidently the weather has made the EPP very brittle (the cold doesnt help either). Easily repaired but I have a scratchbuilt I will transfer the electrics to. Never liked how this wing flew anyway. Such is life.

Update: Ok, the scratchbuilt won't fly w/o a lot of work so repaired this wing, and took it out and it flies. Not great but I put two batteries through it and have finally figured out why it waggles around - the elevons are so thin and weak that they barely function. Will iron some copy shop laminate on them and see how that works. So happy to have this weather worn wing flying again though.

Update Feb 5: flew this morning after straightening the fins (they were pointed outwards a bit), replacing a slow servo and laminating the elevons - and even with a false launch and another landing and launch I flew 16 minutes at 75% throttle on a 900 mah battery. Wing weighs 260 grams and is about .8 meter wing span.

Update Feb6: switched out the 4.5 prop for a 5 inch prop and what a difference. Flies nice now and can even do some slow rolls. Can take hands off sticks and it flies straight and level which most of my scratchbuilt wings didn't do. Flew 4 batteries through it at about 8 min per battery at full power. Turned out to be worth all the trouble I have had getting this thing to fly right.

I had a 6-foot old timer that flew away and spent the winter in the woods. It was found by a survey team in a "wash" and all that was left was a bag of covering - and two servos and an O.S. .15 engine that still worked. The servos went into a surface vehicle - but the engine was in better shape than I would have thought perhaps because the piston had covered the exhaust opening - although it did seem a bit low on power.

Originally Posted by Raymond-leflyr

I had a 6-foot old timer that flew away and spent the winter in the woods. It was found by a survey team in a "wash" and all that was left was a bag of covering - and two servos and an O.S. .15 engine that still worked. The servos went into a surface vehicle - but the engine was in better shape than I would have thought perhaps because the piston had covered the exhaust opening - although it did seem a bit low on power.

I haven't looked at the forums as I dont seem to have the forum mentality but this would be a good topic- "When lost airplanes come home."