Webra 120 seems to be OK. It did break the exhaust tubes on the muffler. Lost all 4 aileron servos. Two had the leads ripped from the case. The other 2 were mangled. It ripped the on-off switch from its housing. The radio seems fine but I don't know if I'll trust the battery pack. It was ripped from the plane and thrown clear but has many dents and abrasions.
We're thinking maybe one of the elevator pull-pull cable may have broken in flight because as he was trying to level it out of a dive it kept rolling out on him. I had the elevator controls set not to do that on low rates even in a full powered dive. It's hard to tell what happenned after the fact because you don't know what happenned in the air or on impact. Because it was rolling out on him I would have to say something failed because I had pullled out of many a full powered dive with full elevator before with no roll. I seem to remember something on the old RCO forums about the stock DP cables breaking.
The Tigger pilot was my daughters contribution. The only thimg still holding him in was the tip of his tail that was CA'd to the rear wall. He did however lose his scarf and a pair of sunglasses. He's headed back to Pooh Corner. Tiggers love to bounce but not from 200ft.!
I'm trying to decide now if I should get another DP Ultimate. My LHS has the one like mine and an all white one in stock. I only had about 80 or 90 flights on this one and really loved the way it performed especially with the Webra 120. Any good recommendations on a GOOD 120 size Cap? I wish H9 still had theirs available.
Thanks for all the sympathies. I covered it with a white linen so the wife and kids wouldn't have to look at it in the shop until I get a chance to "harvest organs"
from it.
My wife's first comments after seeing the plane were " Oh my god! How's Wayne doing?!" ( Wayne is the fellow who was flying it) Then she asked when I could get down to get another one. I don't know about picking out RC planes but I sure did good picking out a wife! I think she's ging to sneak down to the LHS and get me one for my B-day this week because she knows I'm busy working out of town this week and won't have time. I'll act suprised!
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