ORIGINAL: u4eake
Unfortunately last sunday was one of those black sundays at my club with 5 planes crashed. Mine was one of them.
I had changed over to DTE light oil and had emptied the fuel tanks for that. Apparentely I didn't get all the air out of the fuel system and about half flight my turbine quit with a trail of white smoke. Ecu said fuelfail.
I was fairly high when it happenend and I tried to glide it in, but coudn't make a decent approach from where the plane was without passing over the parkinglot or the public. So I made a difficult approach, which went ok until I pulled the landinggear down. I must have pulled the stick a little while flipping the LG switch and the jet went into high alpha for a moment and then dropped a wing and nosed in from about 3m high.
Damage looks bad but only the nose is damaged. Should be repairable. Extra weight of the repair is not so bad since there was 450g lead in the nose.
Gonna put all pieces together with CA and then put a 80g fiberglass cloth inside to strengthen it again. Sanding, spacling, sanding and painting and hopefully it'll be as good as new !
Sorry to hear about the crashes and damage to your aircraft. It seems that you should be able to repair it just fine based off of what you have described above. It's really a shame to hear about such misfortune that comes to any fellow modeler. As for the aircraft that were lost; they are never forgotten:
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As you have mentioned above, yours should be as good as new once the repairs are complete. And then you shall once again be.......
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJDKoEDLbNc[/youtube]
Looking forward to hearing about your bird flying again.
Thank You for the pictures and may all of your future landings be successful.
Best Wishes! 