Well today I had an unscheduled field test for the tail boom. Short take, I crashed resulting in some nasty blade strikes on the boom. The surprise is after a couple square hits as you can see the tail boom was nearly unaffected. My OE boom would been at a right angle. This turned out to be a great mod not only for the price difference, but durability as well. My only real damage was two more grips. This puts me around ten now I think.