It doesn't suprise me, that it foldled as you described. I removed the covering, as I'm getting ready to fiberglass my center section and notice how flimsy it looked. As your aware, I'm adding the one piece landing gear that www.tntlandinggear was making for me. The mouting plate, seems very week. I'll post some pictues, as it goes together. The two piece landing gear setup basically tears the gear mounting plate out of the wing, when a load is applied.