Originally Posted by
luge_racer
Sad.
But isn't it a bit ironic that the commentator talked about how it had passed an aviation certificate (I'm assuming for air worthiness) right before it disintegrated in mid air?
Yep, and lots of the "large model rules" talk about things like servo power, but not many of them (maybe not any of them?) talk about load testing the actual structure.
And yet, failures of the structure itself are what we see most...
Bob