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Crash Photos |
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May 2004
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I had just adjusted the Airleons, and my instructor took off. While coming back across the field, we heard flutter. Then he lost control, and had to crash land my plane in a cow pasture. It was repairable, but here are the photos of the damage. It happened again after I repaired my plane, and after some testing we determined it was a bad receiver. Horizon Hobby, who sells the Alpha Trainer, tested the receiver as well determined it was faulty and sent me a brand new Alpha! |
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Top of the fuselage was ripped off. Easily repaire with some new balsa, epoxy, balsa filler eliminate any seams showing through and Monokote. |
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Firewall ripped off, not to mention a whole lot of mud in the venturi of my engine. I had to cut another firewall out of lite-ply and expoxy it back in. I also used my aircompressor to blow any dirt out of the engine. See bad day at the field for help. |
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Here us a shot of the engine compartment and the damage with the firewall removed. |
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Another shot showing the broken engine compartment wall. |
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The only damage to the wing was the servo mounting was ripped out, easily repaired. |
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This one was purely operator error - mine! It was too windy a day for flying and I clipped a tree with my horizontal stabilizer. My trainer could not save me, and I went nose first into the field. |
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Engine compartment took a nice shot again and the joints split and needed to be epoxied |
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Top of the fuselage where the wing is attached to the dowel cracked upon impact |
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The top and side of the fuse cracked where the dowel to attach the rubber bands to sits in. I needed to epoxy with a place a piece of supporting balsa behind it. |
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Closer shot of the bottom of the fuselage. |
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Bottom of the fuselage, was ripped off on impact since the plane took a nose dive and the fire wall pushed backwards. |
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Epoxy is wonderful. I repaired the section where the dowel sits within the fuse, I reinforced it with a piece of lite-ply behind it. |
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The tail of the plane was damaged as well, Here are the pieces of the tail epoxied back together again. Used some balsa filler over the rough spots, sanded it and recovered - good a new! |
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