A new wing, cowl, prop, gearbox, engine, spinner and landing gear. Should fly like new… let’s find out!
Here’s the rebuilt plane… no decals on the wing… just screaming orange-pink tape (my addition, to find the bottom of the plane at a distance)
The pile of broken parts… so sad….
I bought a Hobby Zone SuperCub RTF R/C Model Airplane.
When I first bought it, it looked, more or less like this (after completing the final assembly steps):
Setting aside the difficulties I had actually getting it to RUN, once it DID, I took it out, flew it a bit… had a couple graceless, but harmless landings, and then *THWAP*!! Broke the wing.
Got some epoxy, repaired the wing, tried it again, mostly taxiing, and doing take-off aborts. Mostly successful, although I managed to create some cosmetic damage.
Then, I took it out this afternoon. Some hand-launches… with reasonable landings. A couple lightly clumsy landings. Then… as if it were not just desirable, but a sought-after and difficult to achieve outcome, somehow, I managed to nosedive it into the pavement from about a hundred feet up.
…so… If you’re wondering what I could possibly use for my birthday, here are a couple thoughts 