I finished building my rocket last week, with the first flight this past saturday. Prefect day for a first flight, no wind sunny skies. I am running a super tiger G75 in mine, and cut the cowling to make it fit just right. I think you'd all be suprised as to how cool it looks. I just love the look of engines, they make the planes look much more mechanical. Anyway, on the first flight at half throttle the leading edge of both sides of the horizontal stabilizer cracked and fluttered really bad. I lost most elevator control but managed to pull it out of a dive by rolling knife edge and nosing it up with the rudder. Then brought it in goosing it from idle to half throttle to control the flutter and altitude. She's landed on the gear in one piece, and upon inspection of the stabilizers it appears that the grain in the leading edge doesnt run perfectly parallel with the leading edge, and it cracked right along the grain. Easy fix, and a check on the elevators themselves to make sure they werent damaged will mean she'll be in the air again by the end of the week. Ill either try and post pictures on here tonight, and if i cant get it to work maybe ill just post a link to my website. either way i also have a GP shoestring and like the performance of that plane, im hoping this flies anywhere near as well as the shoestring. The problem is i didnt even have a chance to get it fully dialed in while in the air. Theres shoestring pictures in my gallery. If anyone else has heard of this stabilizer issue id be interested to hear about it.

Thanks