Hi Mike,

I'm sorry if my last post left you feeling that I agree with the disclaimer, fact is I don't. I simply highlighted the info to hopefully shed a little light on the possible causes for the manufacturers being less than favourable when we the purchasers contact them regarding issues of this nature with one of their products. One of my e-mails to CARF actually called for a global announcement with regards to the safety aspect of these failiures in their product, their reply was that they had carried out extensive testing with their factory test models and could find no conclusive evidence to the problem. Strangley enough, within a few weeks an announcement was placed on their website outlining the possibility of a failiure of this nature with this product and suggested a possible fix which was the horizontal fuselage brace!
Kind of a smack in the face, don't you think?!!
As a so called "end user" I am constantly pro-active with regards safety in aeromodelling and do feel that the extra strength that I have added to my fuselage has, if nothing else, raised the safe operation of the model to a level that I'm more comfortable with, only time will tell.

Eric, I agree. Seemingly cornering the manufacturer via a forum is not the answer and I don't feel that that has happend. I do however, feel that customers of any nature deserve a certain level of product support, but when it comes to safety it should be un-conditional!
Imagine if these models were automobiles falling appart as you drove them down the street............................ their both capable of mass destruction. Just my opinion.

As I've said before, a real dissapointment when the product/model has such great potential.

Andy.