ORIGINAL: RBardin
Man, I wish you had more details - what specific airframes were the 2 at the local PA airport? How were they powered? How were they flown? And the one you saw in VA, what version was that one, and what was the consensus after it went in as to cause?
After searching RCU itself, Bing and Google as well, all I got was the hit for the one that was on youtube, RCPete's rebuild of Francis' old 500+ flight bird, and Adils old thread. I used several search strings - BVM bandit failure - bandit wing failure, Stab failure, flutter, etc. I'm pretty good at finding old threads and such, but I cant seem to find anything. Post some links, please!
Hi,
They were both mine.They were both classics,and in all fairness, they were flown extremely hard.One had a P-160 turned down to 27 lbs,and the other had a P-120.I bought them both used,and the cause wasn't the design in either case.The first was repaired after a catastrophic pipe failure,and was never the same after that.The second was 10 years old,and had the older style hinge on one of the flaps let go at very high speed. I had a super bandit with hundreds of flights on it before I sold it,and I ran it hard.Just an awesome airplane.You will love it,and it will last a long time unless you hurt it in some way. If you're going to run it hard,make sure you have zero slop in your servos and linkages. I find bandits to be prone to aileron flutter at high speed unless there is zero slop in the linkage/servo.I have no experience with Flashes.Good luck.
Erik