ORIGINAL: mechmove
The pilot in question is very experienced and has many years, so I'm pretty certain he built his plane correctly. I never saw the inside of his plane or witnessed the incident. (It wasn’t my plane, I don’t think I will ever have the skill this guy has) The failure resulted in little elevator control, and the picture I had in my mind all this time, conversation was a while back, was that the tube came loose inside the fuse. Whether or not there was ply, I don’t know, but given the pilot, I would assume the build was solid.
In the above, the statement " The failure resulted in little elevator control " leads me to wonder if maybe the bracing for a flexable control rod let loose causing only partial control due to flexing. Usually if a glue joint on a control rod fails ~~ IT FAILS !!!
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