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Old 12-30-2006 | 08:55 PM
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Default RE: ultra stick 60 advice needed

Okay, Ed, here ya' go! When I fly the US with my ST G90 on it I fly it hard.....I mean really hard! That Super Tiger comes on up the pipe with a MAS 13x6 on it and gets this really unique sound to it...you probably know that sound or have heard it! Sometimes theres one other guy up there that is trying to keep up or fly formation when doing this, all in all its usuallly spectator time for most as we are coming down out of the sky hard, fast, and low for passes down the runway then striaght up for as long as you dare hold it. Mine runs about 103mph on my radar gun with this set up straight and level. On one of those passes, coming from the South and from up high I levelled it out and came ripping down the runway and....you guessed it....the wing just flew off! Looked like one of those little helicopter seeds you see falling out of a tree. The fuselage, with the Tiger at WOT for a second probably accelerated to Lord knows how fast while spinning like a bullet and flying straight and true. Got off the throttle and let it finish its trip. When this happened I heard this loud and immediate CHEER go up from behind me. Well, the fuse went about 300 yards and actually only broke the firewall off back to the front of the wing. I figured that any plane that can put on a show like that deserves to be rebuilt and flown again. When we got a look at the fuselage we found both nylon wing bolts had sheared the heads off of them! The plane is again ready and will fly tomorrow for the first time since the rebuild. This time with a little more power as the Carb on the Tiger was damaged badly and the replacement is a Magnum 1.08 carb. News at 11 !