keriksen

101 Dies


I had just finished my spitfire "101 inch spitfire" on the first flight it did good. But when I tryed to do a out side loop I heard a loud pop on the pull out, fallowed by the port side of my wing coming off. Thank god no one was there to get hit with parts of the plane. The plane is fixable all damage is in the wing, and some on the tail. I would like to fix this problem, but looking at it I don't know what I should have done different.
The wing was made up of hardwood dowels backed by ply "3/4sq. dowels" x2 balsa edges and covered by glass the wing was spreadable "not where it failed" Please help with suggestions. And thank you in advance!!!


Kirk Eriksen

Pelle Gris

How dare you do an outside loop with a spitfire...

Don M.

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I've been flying warbirds of one kind or another on and off for 20 years. I've never had the B_ _ _ S or the inclination to try an outside loop. If I had of I would have expected the same results as you. Most warbirds are heavy enough, building them to withstand this kind of stress never entered my mind.

Crusty

where exactly did it break?, hard to offer help with so little detail given

keriksen

Sorry my comp. didn't tell me that I had mail. The wing snapped about 9 inches from the fuse. The wing is separable at 14 inches from the fuse. I still had about 4 to 5 inches of box and aluminum rod left in the wing.

I went to an air show this weekend and took time to look at some of the larger airplanes, they where using aluminum pipe about 1 to 1.5 inches round. Could this be a more suitable way for foam and fiber glass wing?


PS the plain Weighs a lot more than anticipated it's 32. pounds 7 oz.


thank you!
kirk