Smh, this was easily avoidable by not taking off and waiting for better weather. An excellent pilot made a rash decision to take off in his wonder plane in high gusting cross winds after a day of meeting other stol a/c. As skillful as he is in stol with a highly modified a/c, he wasn’t prepared to deal with the gusting winds suddenly changing. A/c was totaled but he and his wife walked away. Admitting to full responsibility of failure to maintain control. he could have waited until winds died down. In both cases was it too much a/c and too little pilot?