Red, great post. Its unreal the amount of punishment this plane will take. If you want to see the history of mine look up a post titled Bentgear breaks ca hinge, news at eleven. I wrote it to poke fun at some of the folks talking about how fragile these planes are. Mine is history now. Had over 20 air hours on it, which does not sound like much, but if you had seen the spots that plane was put in. There will be another.

Chuck, some may be breaking because of bad wood, but, I think more are breaking because people can't get it thru their heads that this is not a plane to be makeing full throttle passes over the flightline. Others break, like mine, because of the huge stress placed on them doing certain maneuvers. Its a fun plane, go have fun with it.

Ed M.