ORIGINAL: Ice Fun

Since I'm close to getting a GLOW trainer, I'd thought I'd take my aerobird Xtreme out for a fun fly just now. So it was going well, did a few loops, stalls. So then, I decided to do a nose dive from approx 500+ feet and when I pulled up (down) A V-TAIL FIN CAME FLYING OFF DUE TO OVERSTRESS! There was no way to control it as it plunged into the concrete ground after nose diving for 500+ feet going god-knows-how-fast and now nearly everything on the plane is destroyed except for the battery! Receiver's gone. Servos stripped. Fuselage bent/cracked. Motor seems fine but didn't even bother testing it with a broken receiver. Wing's broken in 3, yes THREE. I'm going insane right now with my recent -$220.00 transaction []

So this thought came into my head. Could a glow trainer's wing or tail come off like this due to over stress? I'm now worried about buying and flying a glow plane since this fear has been forever instilled into my mind... [&o]


Please inform me here...


-thanks