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08-22-2005, 02:53 PM

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RE: V-Mar F-4 - First Opinion out of the box...

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ORIGINAL: joeflyer

A friend recently got the Mig 21. It looked good and flew well with a Jett 90. On the 5th or 6th flight the elevator started to flutter and the plane crashed. Post crash inspection revealed that one elevator control horn came loose. It was nothing more than a screw through balsa, and the balsa around the horn gave way.

I'd suggest anyone with one of these to throw away the origonals and put some decent control horns on it. Also strengthening the balsa with thin CA near the control horn would be a good idea.

Joe

EEEEEEEEEK !!!

Ya would think that after 50 or so years of people building RC plane kits, they would have some background information on how to - and how not to - install a control horn ???

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