Author Topic: touch of bad luck (Read 5636 times)

andrew wallace · « **on:** July 08, 2014, 20:51:20 PM »

wind was blowing NW and 14mph so i thought i'd take the Flair K8 out for a flight tonight on Downhill beach but struggled to launch the big model on my own normally it's not a problem but tonight it wasn't happening

was nearly away on the 2nd launch but on the third i clipped the sand dunne and it spun the model round breaking the wing

the models about 15 years old and i've only 4 hours flying time clocked on it, it will fix and i've added it to my bucket list ( things to do before i kick the bucket ) i'm going to strip the whole thing down and recover it

Happy Days · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2014, 22:17:00 PM »

Don’t you just hate it when that happens! :cry: Looks like a bit of a messy break.

Hope you get it up and flying again soon.

At least you’ve been out flying Andy. :clap: Apart from a clutch of activity over in the Shannon club, and the “Wexford Bunch” on Big L, no one else seems to be doing any.

Little Keith

gerryb · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2014, 20:21:10 PM »

sympathies andrew, similar story myself, tried to fly my electric conversion of mix fiesta in too strong wind. model whipped hard left and ploughed into hillside, nothing i could do about it. it's fixable, but will take some time.

i'm wondering if that's a scarf joint on the main spar?

gerryb · « **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2014, 20:23:23 PM »

that should be mpx fiesta.

andrew wallace · « **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2014, 08:20:45 AM »

yea Gerry it's on the scarf joint

that was the first thing i noticed when i looked at the damage
i'm one for setting things away and every now and again i'll bring it out and have a look :?: and then some day when i've got it into my head i'll fix it :clap:

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Author Topic: touch of bad luck (Read 5636 times)