ITS IN PIECES
Fifth flight, and my Capiche hit the ground nose first
. Cause of the crash: rudder hinge failure. I was practising blenders (starting to get the hang of it I think) when the rudder let go, and down she came. Looks like the cyano had let go of the wood as they came out quite easily (when I pulled at the remaining ones). I have to say I'm quite surprised, I obviously did not pull hard enough when testing.
Fortunately I believe it is repairable.
Summary of damage:
cowl split (repairable but I'll get a new one at some point)
throttle servo gears stripped
firewall shattered
front left fuz shattered in front of F2.
front right fuz shattered
F2 broken
front decking shattered
front wing mounting plate pulled loose
wing sheeting split, and I think the spar has broken (not sure on this, will find out once the sheeting and covering is removed)
one elevator slightly damaged
tail skid pulled out.
Looks like I'm going to be busy for the next week or two repairing that lot
I have to say I was starting to get a bit leary with it, so I suppose not suprising that something gave out. For the start of the fifth flight, I did a wall from take off. Something I've been wanting to do for ages. Was a bit messy but I did it. Managed a few more harriers as well. Didn't have enough balls to try a knife edge loop though.
If you are pulling out on vertical downlines!! My money says your "Nose heavy" not tail heavy
Actually having written my above piece I was thinking about it, and came to the same conclusion.