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Old 07-19-2004 | 03:44 PM
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Default Flutter!!!

Well I was flying the Alpha yesterday and all she sudden I went into a hard turn and the sound changed. It sounded almost like a jet or full scale plane flying by. I had never experienced this nor seen it happen to anyone else at the field. One of the guys in the pits said FLUTTER!!! Land that plane! So I came in for an uneventful landing and I let him feel the control surfaces and one of my ailerons was completely free moving, so I took it to the pits and took off the wing. The problem was that one of the little rubber keepers for the plastic clevis had dissappeared and the clevis came unsnapped. I cut a new keeper out of Fuel tubing and went out for another flight. It was fine. I got in 4 more flights doin knife edge, part of a blender, and combat. The purpose of this is to warn other people of flutter and how to Identify it.
-Trent