ORIGINAL: lookyj
JPEE -
yeah the wind kept me grounded most of the day, but it started to lighten up around the afternoon/early evening and I was able to get a couple flights in. Yep even took the VAPOR out. Gots to love that little plane, but I should have keep her grounded... needless to say these little planes are TOUGH, but NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE!
seems both my VAPORS are down for repairs,
Jer ~
OUCH....!
Another thing I did to my Vapors before even taking flight was for the wing portions where the plastic Mylar attaches to the frame of the wing, I attached very tiny pieces of scotch tape periodically and evenly around the whole frames of all the wings so that it attaches the Mylar to the frame with added support and stability... The Mylar is very tough stuff, but the connection between the Mylar and the frames is the weakpoint as you can see in your rear-tail rudder pic where the Mylar is totally off from the frame... YIKES...
This makes it almost indestructible then for the wings...
On your next replacement wing or rudder for that matter, you may try this... I've crashed in a lot of these thick pokey dry branches here in Cali with no damage from the wings with the tiny tape method.... Some have Ca'd a bead around the Mylar and frames, but the flexibility of the tape, and its purpose I believe would be better than CA...
Better luck next time.... CA that motor mount, even with the new one coming, and for extra maybe fashion up a additional brace to help support that weak area also... A tiny ziptie works great, but on a stock Vapor set-up, watch the weight and CG as I did things to compensate for that ziptie band-aid....
Take care Jer, (how bout that 600 E video.....?!)
~ Jeff