Mason,

Sorry if i got the landing gear thing mixed up.

Not to start an argument here, but carbon fiber gears, should last more than 11 flights. Delaminate or not. the last time i checked, carbon fiber is a whole lot stronger and lighter than aluminum. And, it does depend on how hard you land the airplane. If you landed the airplane as hard as you probably did when you landed for teh first time, with aluminum gears, it would be flattened; with carbon fiber gears, it will break the gear area. Not to be a smart alek, but i have seen people landing giant scale p-51 mustangs the same way they landed their 40 size mustang. The big mustang's gears got ripped out and destroyed once it hit the ground.

Maybe you got a defective gear? I don't know. But all i can say is that i have seen people flying a very similar plane. All original parts for more than a hundred flights (except pull-pull cables).

If you are claiming that carbon landing gears delaminate if you land, then it must be true that carbon fiber props delaminate just by being used. Last time i checked, that usually never happens.

All i'm trying to say is that the bigger they are, the less abuse they will take.
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