so recently i bought a .46 size u can do as my third plane. i decided to get into 3d so i praticed for a long time on the sim and i was a natural at 3d. i had the plane hovering knife edging.flat spins and everything . well my girlfriend told me to take it easu becuase i was getting a little too courageous on inverted low fly by. she kepted telling that i was gonna crash. i didnt listen . i came in for a low harrier and tried to turn left with my rudder and didnt have enough speed and BAM[>:][:@] it hit the ground. i was so freaking pisssed off i coulnt even believe it. i had been flying this plane for a little less than a week and i already crashed it. i didnt have a camera at the field so i took the pictures when i got home after a trip to the LHS for some wood.it took me about an hour just to figure out how i was gonna start fixing it

some progress

some more

right now im just ready to cover it . hopefully this will make me take it easier next time.

just missing red covering

Let us know how the remaidenening goes.

She`s looking good. Don`t forget to reset the C.G. throws , ect.
It`s hard not to be THA MAN ! when the lady`s hanging out with you and your plane .
I`m smuck one more times than not, everytime my better half comes with me .

I don't think your repair will hold. You have a large number of butt joints right on top of each other. You should have staggered the joints. Do you ever see a wall made out of blocks that has a straight line of bricks in the versicle dimension? Ideally, you would cut the joints at an angle and glue them together.

If you haven't covered it yet, I suggest you pull it apart if you can. If you don't want to do that, then try and reinforce those butt joints as much as you can.

Butt joints are fine as long as there are doublers behind them. If not, it won't hold. It might hold for a while.

thanks for the replies guys. this was my first repair and i should had posted before i started to work on it. i went over all the joints again and reinforced them . i used epoxy with fumed silica to make the bond stronger and i also made plenty or reinforcement in the inside of the airframe so the top woulnt bare all the force.i havent covered the top yet so if i see that the joints dont hold up i will try something different but i checked them last night before i reinforced them and they were strong ass hell. the wood in the back of the crash would bent more easily than where i repaired it

Cool, I would like to see that in the air while pulling some G's, and CRACK right in half in mid air. Make sure you have a video camera PLEASE. That will make some nice footage.

sorry to dissapoint you rsteel but i took it for its RE-maiden today and surprisingly it didnt fold in two pieces. i made sure i did the high G manueves you wanted me to do and nothing happened . i did full speed snap rolls and banks and eveything and when i say full speed i mean an os 91 in my .46 ucd. for everybody else that hoped it DINT brak thank you , she is back flying now and as good as new

Nice job! I've found that most naysayers dont have the b&lls to fly the piss out of their planes. Keep it up!

Good job on the repair. It is always pretty satisfying to me to fly resurrected airplanes.

i took rstell advice and took a camera to the field today waiting for that split. did it happen i dont know look at the video. oh and by the way please take it easy on me this is my first 3d plane and only my third plane overall .fifth time i flown this plane. i've been flying since last august and learned on a sim . coulnt find help from a fellow rc-er to learn to fly but now i fly with a bunch of wonderful guys that i keep learning from...\[link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYE_Pr0Xuy4]u-can-do-remaiden[/link]


i was trying out a smoke system in this plane . it still need to set the flow rate so it wasnt working that well.it was harder to hover because of the extra weight and my cg is not 100% correct with the new weight

Lookin good...better than throwin money away, a few buck's & good as new.