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Old 05-25-2006, 10:47 AM
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Railinrob
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Default RE: Heads Up! Alpha 40 ARF Wing Flaw

Mine had the aluminum wing joiner and the wings were epoxied together.I managed to bend it in flight and the front of the fuse were the covering looks like the front windshield came off the model and fluttered down like a feather.This let the wing almost separate as one wing bolt broke but the other stayed intact causeing a rather impressive death spiral to the ground.I'm absolutely sure it was from doing crank and bank turns at full throttle in some pretty high winds because you could see the wings physically flexing upwards each turn quite a bit.