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Old 06-13-2009 | 11:08 AM
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jg95762
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Great pictures!  I flew my Pulse yesterday in high wind and had a couple of very poor landings, one of which I later found cracked the trailing edge where it meets the sheeting at the wing root.  On another landing I came up 3 ft short of the runway in the grass which ripped the landing gear off - the plane continued onto the runway on its belly - kinda cool looking!  So I will be spending time fixing today to be able to fly tomorrow.  I have cut off some of the ultracoat from bottom side of the wing and found the one of the ribs is also cracked - it is made of very soft, flexible balsa.  I guess I am now seeing the poorer quality side of ARFs.  Altogether I have been disappointed with the finish qualify of the Pulse.  Now I am seeing that it is not very durable/robust.

Anyway,   I will probably wait for you to get ahead of me and see how you tackle the covering. 

I don't have an incident meter and just glued the stab on and eyeballed it.  I did have to fiddle around a fair bit to get the fin at 90 degrees.  But it all looks square when I look at it from behind and in front.  I will definitely pick up one of those meters for the next build.

I may also fix my old scratch built so that I can fly at the local park - I have been missing being able to fly in the summer evenings.