Today I was doing some snap rolls with my Magic Extra and the left side of the horizontal stab broke! I managed to get it pointed into the wind and throttle it down but then I lost all control and down she went. I ended up with the fuse snapped in half and minor damage to the wing and of course a broken stab. I can rebuild it but my thought is it never should have happened in the first place.

I thought I read on this forum once before a reference to tail problems with the Magic extras. Has anyone had/seen this problem before? When I rebuild it I plan on putting tail support wires so this doesn't happen again.
Bill

I have one also. Only about 5 flights. I've heard of people strengthening the tail with wires but did not hear of actual failures. After reading your thread I feel like adding the wires. I've never done it though. Don't know exactly the right way to do it.

A snap roll must be hard on a stab. I've done fast rolls but not fast snap rolls (yet).

Joe

this problem has happened to others, I won't say it's a common problem but it has happened to several people on this forum. I put flying wires on mine right out of the box, 50-60 flights later no problems. I also beefed up the fuse in the wing saddle, firewall/fuel tank area on mine, paid off today. at about 20ftAGL inverted slow harrier I decided to pull out kinda reverse imelmen style. my engine stumbled then died as I feed in power and elevator, GREAT 20 ft off the deck inverted dead stick!!! I quickly gave it full left rudder and aileron snaped it up right and burried up elevator. It hit at about a 45 degree angle nosedown and 45 in yaw, the nose of the motor hit first followed by the left wheel and left wing tip then just floped down on the gear. the only damage were CLEAN breaks on the right side of the firewall and the wing hold down on both sides loosened(poor glue joints) I also loosened one of the wing dowels. Took me all of 20 min to strip out the tank mix some epoxy and fix it. had I not beefed up the fuse out of the box I really feel I would have been rebuliding the fuse.

Go here for info on flying wires, page 6. I used TOMAPOWA's method only I used 2 flying wires not just one.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_29...2Cextra/tm.htm


John

I agree with JSN. the magic extra is a really fun plane to fly. it will do most of the 3D stuff along with just regular fun flying. I'm using an OS 46 FX and unlimited power. I used pull pull wire on the rudder instead of the steal rods supplied because i found it wouldn't center consistently. I will say that you MUST beef up the fuse where the wing saddles. IT is only around 1 inch at the thinnest area and will break really easy. I just had an accident with mine on takeoff. a cross wind got under the wing and flipped the plane over. the fuse snapped above the wing where the canopy area is, and broke the landing gear mount. No other damage. I believe if I had beefed up the area with a length of 1/4 or 3/8 plywood in the fuse, the length of the wing, i probably would have just picked up the plane, re-glued the landing gear block and flown it again. It really is a soft spot. after reading this thread I will beef up the tail also.

Try those CF rods like the Funtana uses. They are pretty reliable.