UPDATE Hate it when the expiration date matches the maiden..
I have spent the last 2 months bugging my buddy to come out to the feild and start flying with me. Well he finally picked up a H9 Alpha 40 RTF put it together per the manual and met me at the feild. I looked over his plane and helpped him with some ground tech and passed him to a more experienced pilot to help him with the initial trim flight. Our expert took the plane up and was having a hard time trimming the plane out... seemed to be constantly changing. Then the plane took a hard left and dove to Tera Firma. Well the 2 minute flight was followed by a 20 minute search in the bean field to find that the wing halves were seperated. The wing halves of this plane have a 3/4 in wide piece of tape (like packing tape) and 2 aluminum tubes joining them... That's all. The ailerons were constantly changing as the wing halves worked themselves apart changing the linkage geometry. (This of course is speculation). I am in no way saying there was no error on our part here because common sense would dictate that you epoxy wing halves together. I just hope my buddy is not to discuraged and gives it another go. Has anyone else seen this happen? or have experience with this plane and what did you think about the packing tape?