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Old 08-05-2003 | 08:26 PM
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Default Hype 3D or not?

a friend of mine has a electric hype, it was one of the first ones(the ones that fall apart at the tail) .
he brought it out last weekend and had a play, he let me have a go and i rolled it to knife edge - lovely, put the nose down for 2 vertical rolls and then went to pull out- nothing.

the tailplane had twisted around the seating in the fuselage and was nowsitting at 90 degrees to the wing--it went straight in , breaking the speedo (expensive) motor(expensive) and splitting one of the two battery packs.
the plane was a mess, he knew it wasnt my fault- i still felt sick though.

i understand that weston changed factories and the new ones are very good but the construction of this one was very poor, the tail end had no torsional strength.

i hope weston will replace all the stuff that got broke in the crash and replace the plane with a new one- it should NOT have happened.

i have seen alan greenfield fly his and it looks incredible