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Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 2:08:04 PM   
Zpat



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Status: offline 		The guys in the club have been upset with me lately and I believe I may have been sabotaged.

My favorite airplane seemed to have structural failure. The spar broke.
This is a 5/8" pine dowel for a 5lb airplane.

I wouldn't think the forces of a 5lb airplane could do this.

What do you guys think?

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 2:22:56 PM   
DavidAgar



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Status: offline 		What were you doing when this spar broke? It could be a suspicious thing, however I have seen breaks like this caused by over stressing a plane in flight. How old is the plane and how many flights are on it? Could it have been damaged in the hangor and not noticed? If one of your club members did do this prior to a flight, I would think that it would have been noticed prior to flight. Good Luck, Dave


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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 2:29:53 PM   
Zpat



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Status: offline 		When the spar broke I was practicing blenders.

The spar itself has 10 or 15 flights on it because it was recently replaced.

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 3:48:54 PM   
FOD MAN



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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 3:55:26 PM   
Zpat



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Status: offline 		I was in a hover and engine leaned.
It fell on its nose causing the aluminum wing bolts to bend in a "u" shape. The part in the dowel bent. Removal resulted in trashing the dowel.

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 4:11:32 PM   
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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 4:20:41 PM   
Zpat



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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 4:43:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		So are you saying someone snuck into your workshop and somehow weakend the dowel so you couldn't tell after it broke? Maybe a more reasonable explanation is that you put it in with the grain in the wrong position and when you did a manuver that will rip the wings off many planes it came apart.

I find it hard to believe that just because you are paranoid and accusing people of doing something to your plane that they would think your an A-hole.

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 5:34:49 PM   
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quote:

They think I'm an a**hole.


If you really believe that they sabatoged you airplane, they could be right .

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 6:05:03 PM   
Zpat



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Status: offline 		BasinBum,
I think you are correct.

Grain orientation was not taken into account.
Thank you!
I knew I'd find the answer here.
Maybe they didn't sabotage it.
Oh well.....

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 6:53:57 PM   
ballgunner



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Status: offline 		Check your own background. Do they really think you are an A--hole or are you just paranoid. ( so much for amateur psychiatry ) Look back and try to find what you did to irritate someone enough to even consider sabotage.

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 7:08:42 PM   
Geistware



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Status: offline 		From the picture, the grain looks in the right direction but I still would expect pine to break if you didn't saturate it with C/A. I would have coated it with C/A then sanded it smooth.


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ORIGINAL: Zpat

The guys in the club have been upset with me lately and I believe I may have been sabotaged.

My favorite airplane seemed to have structural failure. The spar broke.
This is a 5/8" pine dowel for a 5lb airplane.

I wouldn't think the forces of a 5lb airplane could do this.

What do you guys think?


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RE: Saboteur? - 10/12/2003 9:12:41 PM   
Zpat



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Status: offline 		I just mentioned sabotage to get a rise out of the guys.
All in fun.

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/13/2003 12:07:00 AM   
cabanestrut2002



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Status: offline 		i think this is a joke- lighten up guys.

troll troll troll your boat

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/13/2003 12:09:12 AM   
augiep38



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quote:

ORIGINAL: cabanestrut2002

i think this is a joke- lighten up guys.

troll troll troll your boat


I think it was sabotage.

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/13/2003 8:42:51 AM   
Grampaw


 

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Status: offline 		Wonder what the other guys in the club would have to say about this?

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RE: Saboteur? - 10/13/2003 1:31:50 PM   
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