Hi Brian

Well things are both good and not so good with the extra. The plane is a great flyer and lots of fun, tracks straight down the runway for take offs and lands alot more easily than I initialy anticipated and I really love the Saito 125.

However, practicing some low(ish) level crosswind manoevers a few weeks ago started the downwind approach for landing. Glanced momentarily at the timer and when I resighted on the plane it was belly up on a downward trajectory - thump. Don't know what happened but a club member mentioned that two planes were lost in a similar place the day before - all of us flying on 2.4Ghz. Anyway not sure I will take my eyes of a plane again however briefly.[&o]

I initially thought the plane was toast and packed it away to reclaim the hardware. There was nothing left of the fuselage in front of the canopy and the wing was snapped close to the fuselage. After a day or two I ambitiously decided to rebuild the plane, mainly because it was such a great flyer. So I ordered the fuselage sides from Great Planes and set about repairing the wing while I waited.

The wing is now finished, ready for recovering and the fuselage is at the point of re-attaching the reclaimed empanage.

I will start a repair thread on crash and rebuild for those interested but here are some prelim photos.