ORIGINAL: timothy thompson
I NEVER SAID A SIMPLE 4 PLACE! THEY ARE COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION AND VERY STRONG . you cant compare a model to the full scale in that way. i wonder how many of these failures occured at full power in a high G turn. The model wing joining method is weak even with reinforcements. I fly a saito 80 at half power and do loops rolls and spins. The trick is to not overload the designed G load.
It doesnt help that the box says its fully aerobatic. The full scale is a GA aircraft and can perform! the strength of composite materials is startling and will replace aluminum and titanium. airbus uses most all composite on the A380 and they break wing jigs too! the least the arf kits can include are rib patterns but they want you to buy a new one not fix.
"Bizarre" is the only word that comes to mind…
And I don’t like to kick a guy when he’s down, but… The A380 is NOT mostly composite. Only the tail cone aft of the pressure bulkhead, the vert, stab and flight control surfaces are composite along with a few other subassemblies. Less than 25% by volume and less than 10% by weight.
You're thinking of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, 80% by volume including it’s fues made from rolled barrel sections.