Impact failure (again)

[Chris Moon]

Thanks Buddy.  I'll fwd your repair info to the owner.  Maybe he will be 
able to repair it.

Chris

BUDDYonRC at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/7/2005 3:23:43 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> cjm767driver at hotmail.com writes:
>
>        Well, we had another Impact tail failure this weekend at our
>     contest
>     in St. Charles, Il.  Luckily the pull-pull cables kept it attached
>     and
>     he was able to land it safely.  The plane had the formers and a foam
>     crutch installed to prevent this from breaking but it failed at
>     the rear
>     bulkhead anyways.  The ironic thing was that he got this plane at a
>     discount from Composite Arf beacuse his Rev Pro had the tail fall off
>     completely on the 2nd flight.
>
>     Chris
>
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> I have two of them the first one broke at the tail but I was able to 
> repair it. The second one is a Paradise version which had the former 
> installed but I didn't think much of the foam that was furnished with 
> the kit so I installed a Nomex pannel with lightning holes in it's 
> place and one from the stab tube rearward to the rudder post and have 
> had no problems with it or the repaired one.I had to build a foam and 
> balsa rudder for the repaired one to save tail weight.Both fly great now.
> Buddy

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