A tip that might prevent failures for all of us, who had one before the failure started occuring.

The the fuselage skin is very thin. You can ***** a pin through it with ease. It also dents very easily. Once it dents, the skin can lose its integrity very easily. I have been working with these materials for quite some time now and I regard them like balsa sheeted foam wings. Once you mess up the skin you can get problems. You can strengthen the poly-U foam locally with thin CA and also a piece of .6 oz cloth and the CA. A big drop of CA on the inside of the dent will help.

I store and transport my skinned-polyurethene-foam-lined planes differently from my older FG fuselages. These planes are never put on my travel racks. The are rested on the floor of my vehicle. The center of the fuselage is supported by a 6" wide expanded-polystyrene carved foam block. This block has a 1/2" layer of carpet-soft-foam-underlayment as a bed for the fuselage bottom. The block is hot wire-carved/curved to match the fuselage shape and the wheels just touch the ground. This prevents local pressure points and also stops the wheels getting flat spots.

My in-house storage racks now have foam block blocks to also spread the load in a similar way to the travel-blocks.

I'd look for any denting in the area where the photos in this thread showed the failure. It is a location where a rack or stand could cause denting.

Not trying to create a panacea to the problem, but if we save one plane it was worth the typing.

Regards,

Eric.