RE: Flanker Carnage
The Jetts can take a beating. After I stuffed that F-20, I just took it apart and cleaned it up. I did have to send the muffler back for a repair. However several months later when I had my .90 on that red Ultra Sport. I had another incident. The plane had been running fine for a couple months.
One day, I was out their and going down the back stretch full speed when it just quit. I was in good position and just deadsticked right on in. After looking it over, it did not quit. The spinner and prop came off and since the plane was so far out , I did not hear the over speed of a kazillion rpms which broke the connecting rod.
Jett sent me a new rod and again, I checked it for scorching and just cleaned the inside with a buffer and checked the bearings, lubed them up and been fine ever since.