I have built probably a dozen or more R/C airplanes in my 20+ yrs in the hobby. Found an older kit recently at one of the few hobby shops left, an Astro Flight inc. Astro Sport. (Anyone ever had one? Never heard of it - 36" high wing)

It should go together easy enough, wood was all acceptable, instructions OK. I had recently re-kitted (crashed) my go-to plane, and had a 90" kit mostly done on the bench. So I cleared it away to build the little Astro Sport. It should have been a straightforward, reasonably quick build...

Guess I had a couple too many brewskis one evening. That plus being in a hurry to slap it together, and watching the military channel.
After work the next day I unpin the wing from the old building board to examine my handiwork. Frazzleshaggit#%* if I had not glued the leading edge on UPSIDE DOWN ! Took two and a half dadblasted evenings to correct.


Anyone else care to share your blunders?

Starting to feel bad. Almost a hundred views & nobody else made a building blunder. Yowee, I am in a class by myself...

I have glued on about 10 times more parts upside down than your leading edges.....

Somehow the fact that almost any screw up is fixable doesn't cheer you up when you are fixing things. I think the worst one I did was building and covering a wing (with fabric doped down) , and then realizing the ribs had no holes in them, so there was no way to get servo wire out to the servo bays.....

Now I don't feel so bad. I started building a Kadet Jr from the plans I have from an old kit and totally screwed up the second fuse side. Ended up with two rights and no lefts. Just means that when I get done, I'll have two planes instead of one I guess

I wonder if the 2 left wing halves I made once will fit your 2 right fuselage side plane?

Fixing a damaged airplane at a race, and dropping CA glue right in a servo output shaft. Repairing a damaged airplane at the front of the wing saddle, and trimming behind the fuel tank with an Exacto knife only to slice a hole in the fuel tank.Driving off with a transmitter on the roof of the car. There are too many to list.

Transmitter on the roof ! OUCH !

I have done most of the OOOP's out there. Built several one sided planes so I ended up with two planes, built (2) of the same wing and again ended up building a second plane. Glued my fingers so well to the plane I broke the part getting my finger loose. some how I have glued the trailing edge on upside down. Built the mounts for the retracts backwards so retracts moved towards the tip when retracting. Glued dihedral brace in upside down, Mounted control horns backwards. forgot sheer webs, found out after second flight, rekitted. mounted servos to high and wing would not bolt on. mixed up 3M77 with a can of 3M90 spray when sheeting foam cores, Once mixed a can of 3M silicone with 3M77.

So yes I have done my fair share of #($(*$$*(#*@*)$)_$*&#^!(&@)# Blunders.

Buzz.