ORIGINAL: CGRetired
Which NexSTAR is this? The RTF or ARF? Reason I ask is because back when I was going through training, I did the exact same thing, but not in a dead-stick landing.. I landed quite hard and busted up the main gear.
Mine was the RTF version with the "plastic" locking main gear assembly.
What I ended up doing is putting it back together, piecing the sections of plastic locking mechanism together, put a re-inforcing piece of ply and then loaded it up with epoxy. It was never able to come apart after that, but it didn't break again, either.. even with the abuse I gave it.
CGr.
It's the ARF version with the metal landing gear. Fortunately, the plastic plate lock mechanism that the gears snaps into was intact. So I cleaned up all the wood. Then placed a section of 1/4 inch ply with epoxy where the old 1/8 inch wood panel above the gear used to be. Then I reinforced it with triangle stock on both sides of the bulkhead. Now I just need to patch up the fuselage and should be good to go.
I'm not sure why the engine stalled. It's an OS 46 FX. It was screaming along and then just stalled. I think the prop may be a little small and the engine overheated. So I picked up a larger prop a the LHS this week. Hopefully i'm back up in the air this weekend.