Hey Harry .... Have not heard from you in a long time! Hope all is going well, and I wanted to thank you again for all the help you gave me last spring.

Bo

Thanks for the advice on tail draggers and converstion etc but i thought it would be easier for now to order another nose leg as they are really cheap i ordered it from www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk as this is where i got my plane. I'll give the Trike wheel landing gear one more chance lol then if any thing goes wrong its definateley time to convert to tail dragger. Bgorham your crash pics have FREAKED me out lol i'm amazed how you fixed her up after that! Whilst waiting for my nose arm i'm getting plenty of flying in on my Electric T-Hawk 3 channel which is good fun and i can fly on the Cricket pitch by my house also my bro now has one (He's better on it than me ) the git. Ok thanks again laters , Stedge.

Most ARTFs are built down to a price to sell, they are not built up to a durable quality. One of the cost cuts is that the wire used in undercarriages is not the correctly tempered piano wire that we normally use but some other metal which is either too soft and collapses and bends, or is brittle and snaps easily, whereas piano wire is springy and takes enormous abuse without complaint. On many ARTFs you can actually see hairline cracks in the metal at the bends, and delamination of the shiny coating when you take it out of the box long before it has even sat on the ground. It was probably this, and not your flying or rough ground that snapped the noseleg.