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Old 09-02-2013 | 09:16 AM
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bluesky123
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Red face Just won this plane at a club raffle...

Even though "дареному коню в зубы не смотрят" ("never look the gift horse in the mouth"), I must say this ARF is a piece of cr@p. Whoever designed this knock-off, had no clue about engineering...

Any way, I gotta make it fly and not fall apart at the first landing. I peeled the covering of the nose and completely rebuilt the front half of the fuselage. Have to keep myself from rebuilding everything, which is especially hard for the tail feather. The horizontal stab will certainly fold under load--it's a thin plank of soft balsa. I peeled off the covering and discovered a piece of lite ply (which is supposed to reinforce the stab?):



At least it can serve as a good shear web!
Here's a piece of 12k carbon tow spread over it:

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