hello,
Today I had my first real flight at baylands park in sunnyvale. I crashed the plane but it still is able to fly. The wings seemed to me that if the plane is pulling up that the wings are almost folding under the presure. Now that the wings have hit the ground 20 or more times the tendancy to fold is even more so. It is a plane called Acipiter Badius by Shun Da. Before I flew the plane I taped the wings with packing tape to strengthen the wings against tear out. But as to the strength against load I have to ask someone to advise how to make the wings more rigid. The plane was able to perform a loop (accidentally) with the wings in its current state, but not a full out high speed loop with the plane in a dive and pulling back on the control. This loop that the plane made did not result in a crash, however the plane has been in a crash first by hitting a light pole, then a crash straight into the ground, some touching wings to ground with plane spinning in a cartwheel motion. One crash the plane was stuck in the ground like a lawn dart. All in all the plane is in working condition but I think if the wings were able to remain rigid during flying manuvers that I would be able to control it better. What are you people using on your planes to make the wings stronger/rigid under load. I am including a picture of the wings that have crumpled under the severest crashes, but can still fly and are in one piece.