ORIGINAL: Crash Campbell
Hi CGretired,
I'm retired too
. I put in my comment regarding flutter and throttle control as the only models I have seen suffer catestrophic failure through flutter have been ARFs, one from the same stable as quore's model. I have seen the occassional kit or scratch built model suffer from flutter but not to the extent of destroying the airframe.
Cheers,
Colin
Hmm.. ok. All but one of my planes are arfs and I have NEVER experienced a wrecked aircraft due to flutter. My Goldberg Wildstick, which is an arf, (and retired at this point) used to flutter when I pushed it to hard.. but I always caught it right away (lucky me) and landed it. The control surfaces were all intact as were all their hinges.
I would turn around and put it right back in the air.
I retired it because I needed the servos.. the thing had 7!!
CGr.