I personally saw the part that failed on the hawk. The part never had a chance, the material it was made from was not carbon fiber plate, it was a laminated material consisting of two hard surfaces with a soft core. I too am not an expert on aircraft engineering but when you compare what other manufactures do in a bird of that size and compare it to what FEJ did you have to ask yourself who is designing this stuff? Every company goes through a learning curve and the all have failures and they learn from it. They also learn that they need to prove there product themselves before they offer it for sale to the public. I watched there demo pilot take off a model at Kentucky when it was clear to everyone that the motor was not running right on the ground and he went for a flight hoping it would get better, guess what I didn't and it ended in a dead stick landing. It seems that there attitude is if you bury your head in the sand everything will be fine. There are people around them that are trying to point them in the right direction and help them to have a good product but there not listening. I guess my point is if your house is built on a poor foundation it does not matter how much paint you put on it. Someone at the top of FEJ just does not care or is totally clueless about how to build a safe model jet. If you look at all the bad press they got its clear that there rushing to get models out there so they can say look we fixed our problems but all they do is keep shooting themselves in the foot. If I where FEJ I would take a step back, slow down and fix and test one model at a time.
Don