This is not a happy set of pictures, but we should learn from this. The plane took off was perfectly in trim and flying well, when all of a sudden one wing folded and down came the plane with some force. What happened. Some times one cannot tell, but this time it was clear. I had a more minor crash last fall due to on aileron not working. I repaired the plane, the only damage to the wings was a broken carbon fiber wing tube. Rather than spend forty to fifty dollars for a new one, I took a piece of aluminum tube that fit tightly in the carbon fiber tube, it was about four inches and epoxied the carbon tube that had broken cleanly to the aluminum, making what I thought was an excellent repair. Well I flew it twice last fall fine. And so did not expect any trouble, but the epoxy evidently let loose, and with force on wing the tube started to slip and then began to split. The wing broke loose with its part of tube and the other part was still in plane with the wing bolts still attached to the ripped out rib of the departed wing. Result Crash!!

Pat Filius from Muskegon came down to join in the flying fun at the Holland Civic Center with his great Flying Carpet. Enjoy!

Tom Wrobleski of the West Michigan Aero Bats team was at the last meeting to talk about the group and see if anyone was interested in joining them to assist with flying at three shows this year.

Their goal is to promote RC fling as well as entertain groups at events in West Michigan. This is a great opportunity to have some fun and promote RC flying.

The only requirements were that you were comfortable flying in front of a crowd, in wind, and could maintain safe control of your plane.

More information can be had by contacting him at 616-813-2639 or his email of twrobleski

-mike

As of today, there are stakes to keep people from driving on the grass at the Tulip City field. As most people are aware, there are takers and givers, and some also feel that rules do not apply to them. We have to take care of our field, and we also have to respect our land lord. I don’t want to be the first one to find out that there is a chain across the driveway, and a sign on it saying come back in June. This can happened, and has happened at a field I used to fly at. So give your buddies a break, and if you see someone doing this, report them.

William Porter

Further note from President: Thank you Bill for letting us know and for putting up the stakes. If anyone doesn’t get the meaning of the message…STAY ON THE DRIVEWAY AND OFF THE GRASS!