ORIGINAL: OreoFilling62
I had a four star 40... im a young kid also (16) i bought a fourstar 40 arf. was excited my first low winger, basically mastered it my first 10 flites. started to get fancy, stablizer and tail flew off during flight when i was doing flat spins a high speed turns and barllel rolls. came down like a rock into the cow pasture fence, fuse is in alright conndition wing is totaled. found out that the epoxy was still wet on the fuse were the stablizer connects to fuse, i did not mix it right, it wasnt even dry. make sure your stablizer is connected to the fuse strong, put on triangle supports on the connections, you wouldnt think how immport it would be to mix the glue right.... don't rush it man, it looks to me you are, i can tell how you just glued on the canopy, with a huge amount of glue that "scared" it. I wanted to get my arf in the air as fast as you want to put you kit together and now i lost 150$ over it... here are picks of what happened. I bought this spitfire before i crashed to four star 40, I don't know what i should do, the crashed scared me off from flying it, should i just go ahead and fly it? or buy a new four star and get my confindence up agin. this spit is so nice i dont want to crash it, should i sell it off? tell me what you think
Oreo,
The Spitfire is going to be somewhat twichy on the ground and I cannot tell with the pic but is it retracts???
I would be careful flying it just yet. I's a pretty plane but if you can really flat spin, and do all the other stuff you might be ready. The Spitfire once airborne will not be a problem but retracts are another issue. Constant maintanence is a must especially if you are flying from grass.
In all honesty I would go buddy box with it if at all possible and for that matter, if you still have your previous plane fly it until you get over your nervousness. We all go through it, just get right back in the air ASAP....There is no harm in getting on the buddy box right after a crash if you feel you need too.
The cool thing is you know what happened and are cool enough to admit your mistakes so you are miles ahead of most new pilots