vtol_guy

a few weeks ago my new trainer which i had built with my own sweat and blood, crashed.

The take-off was perfect and it was fine until at around 250ft the rudder stuck to the left and wouldnt budge, having no ailerons there was nothing i could really do but to watch the thing left spiral dive into the ground. I was really dreading the worst but on arrival of the crash site, the fuselage was 100% fully intact. Infact the only thing wrong with the fuse is that the prop on the engine had chipped about an inch of it off. The only really damaged thing were the wings which was now in 2 halves.
The wings are polyhedral design, 4 panels and the centre of the wings had just compltely split straight down the join, after getting home probaly took about 3 hours work to fully fix up again but that was including cleaning out the engine as i had suspicions that the carb had swalled a bit of soil from the ground!

anyway she ain't been flying since because of weather but i'm hoping to get her up this sunday with any luck