Maggie’s Well that sucks. Lot of work down the tube.

[2ndamendfan]

I have had days like this.

 

[JLP.Payette]

I have had days like this.

Oh damn... It was cool while it lasted..

 

[Sean the Nailer]

First the rudder 'disintegrated' and then the plane just 'dissolved' into near-individual building components. It was almost like the only thing holding it together was the paint. I watched that on (almost) single-frame progression, and wow. Did that thing ever self-destruct. Only thing missing was a smoke-trail from a MANPAD or whatever they're called.

Laughing at my joke, not the destroyed effort of those artisans.

 

[pmclaine]

Stick with Guillows.

 

[diverdon]

Looks like a lot of balsa wood where he should have used aluminum.

 

[pmclaine]

Engineer mantra....

"Looked good on paper"

 

[JLP.Payette]

Engineer mantra....

"Looked good on paper"

Haha.. They were getting cocky with all the acrobatics.

 

[JLP.Payette]

First the rudder 'disintegrated' and then the plane just 'dissolved' into near-individual building components. It was almost like the only thing holding it together was the paint. I watched that on (almost) single-frame progression, and wow. Did that thing ever self-destruct. Only thing missing was a smoke-trail from a MANPAD or whatever they're called.

Laughing at my joke, not the destroyed effort of those artisans.

Alot of work went into that.. I feel bad for them going home with all the pieces.

 

[footsteps]

Unt back to za drawing board yah. I.E. Gorilla Glue.

 

[2ndamendfan]

First the rudder 'disintegrated' and then the plane just 'dissolved' into near-individual building components. It was almost like the only thing holding it together was the paint. I watched that on (almost) single-frame progression, and wow. Did that thing ever self-destruct. Only thing missing was a smoke-trail from a MANPAD or whatever they're called.

Laughing at my joke, not the destroyed effort of those artisans.

Yep rudder/tail went first. I don't know shit about planes. But it looked to me like the plane rolled 90 degrees to the right and after a 100 yards or so the "pilot" pitched the nose up, to climb. The tail came apart about 1/2 a sec after that move. I would imagine that would put a ton of load on the frame. Can a real fighter even do that move? I assume so, but never seen a plane try that move before.

 

[tnichols]

Certainly a structural limitation was exceeded. Eject, eject, eject...

I can’t imagine the cost and man hours in that thing.

 

[KZP]

I'm going to take a stab and say this is why they don't make fighter jets with wood. They made it too large of a scale for a wood frame to handle the loads.

 

[Supersubes]

Before the vertical stabilizer went, the planes attitude was kinda strange. I think something else failed first. You can overstress a real jet in exactly the same way. Shame, buecause it looked like it has some really nice flight characteristics.

 

[Spblademaker]

I didn’t see the cat eject. I hope it’s ok. For @1J04 sake.

 

[THEIS]

Hi,

Damn that sucks!!!
He should call me because I have the UAV version of this plane available...Can even make it dual UAV/Direct control if he would like.

Sincerely,
Theis

 

[AIAW]

 

[pmclaine]

I was thinking based on the size of the thing you could probably strap a small child to it and let them take a flight.......guess not.

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

Do you suppose it was insured?

 

[2ndamendfan]

Hi,

Damn that sucks!!!
He should call me because I have the UAV version of this plane available...Can even make it dual UAV/Direct control if he would like.
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Sincerely,
Theis

Again I repeat myself. Dude you have some stories to tell.