No flying wires on my tail, and the Saito 91 is starting to tick over reliably at all throttle settings.

I can tell you that after 75 landings including dead sticks into the corn field and into the apple trees, including a freaky wind slamming the plane down onto the runway, flattening the gear, I was able to rip the gear plate out of the bottom!

Ah ha! The plane is mortal!