with the recent passing of a beautiful Curare and the cause of the crash being on everyone's mind i wanted to start a separate thread on the cause (the CF DEPS failure). i thought the problem was the titanium end threaded adapters pushing away from the CF rods during or after assembly. apparently the CF tube and it's adapter is also a problem? i modified the DEPS system from Central Hobbies to where the tube isn't a problem but the adapters over the rods is a different story. you can't drill a hole in the rod and let air escape. see photo. i know there are other ways of building a DEPS but this system is incredibly light and strong.

david