Guess its time to bring out the sand bags, support the model inverted on some foam saddles, and do a static load test. I ladled out 5-lbs sandwich bags from 50-lbs sand packages (they're quite reasonably priced at the local home center) for a total of 24bags to test my 12+ Lbs all-up JHH F-4. I suppose 180-Lbs would have been more appropriate; but me & my test pilot are usually easy on the sticks If it was to fail, I thought having the wings snap over the garage floor was more salvageable than if they folded high in the air.

Cheers,

Phil