Guys, I think the Integral is an awesome airplane and it fly's very well, but there was an incident here with one the other day that didn't please me to well. Some of you might know Mike Pascal " D6 Member " who fly's pattern now in Intermediate. He ordered an Integral seven weeks ago and just finished it two weeks ago; he went out and flew it last week and he had to put the battery pack 16.5 inches behind the center of the wingtube not to mention the 6.5 oz of weight he already had in the tail but the plane never ceased to be nose heavy. He has a YS. 160 DZ, with a short tuned pipe in the nose.

A day before he flew it I noticed that where the Carbon Fiber stops aft from the firewall (3 in. aft), it did not have that much strengh between the area where the Carbon stopped and the wingtube. He had a dead stick on his maiden flight last week, came in on final and right when he was 5 in. from the ground he stalled it and it hit the landing gear ( Not to hard as each airplane is built to resist the breaking point and it didn't even scrape the chin cowl, the wingtips and plus didn't even skin the wheels it hit so lightly). Right between the Carbon Fiber endpoint and the Wingtube it broke in half at that middle point where the fusealage seemed thin. It ruined the airplane, and he was very dissapointed in the building and the issues he had with the nose weight and the weak point in the aircraft.

I was writing this to see if anyone else have had these problems with another Integral or not because I know it isn't a bad airplane. I think it fly's superb, but this could be the result of a incident at the factory??? Not sure??

I have four pictures of where it broke which I will post later.

Thanks,



Matthew L.