Incident with the yak over the weekend
Incident with the yak over the weekend.
Just coming out of a nice hover about to test my skills in a rolling harrier, when all of a sudden I notice the rudder depart from the virtical stab and dangle by the control rod off the back of the plane. Not sure how I was able to keep it stable while doing a perfect landing but on a closer view I noticed right way I had used the wrong hinges. [X(]
All four CA hinges ripped in half, I'll be replacing them this evening with pin hinges. I've read post here on RCU concering CA hinges failing but never gave it much thought.
Blackie