I had my FW come off in mid-air the last time I flew the UP. I was fortunate that I was on a downwind heading into the finals or I would have had a pile of balsa! I had made my engine box per the plans and had even glassed in the tri-stock in the corners, my saito 180 still pulled the FW off. I went back in and put 4 right angle alum. brackets on the FW and reglued with tri-stock to make sure this does not happen again. If the weather would clear for a while I might get to fly it to test the repairs...it'll hold.

Since the following pics were taken, I changed out all the tail wires and replaced them with CF rods, I put nylon clevis' on the mouting plate on the bottom. Saved a lot of weight!

Here's a few pics of my U-Pitts