evranch
Well-known member
I smacked the nose of my Baron into the ground good and hard again while flying too fast too close to the ground. Amazingly I didn't even break the prop!
What I did break was the firewall off of the power pod. The tape ripped and the hot glue let go. No other damage to the airframe.
I had built it with cheap packing tape over the firewall as I was out of the good stuff. I was about to repair it with good strong fiber or repair tape, until I realized that maybe that stuff letting go saved my motor shaft or at least my prop and spinner, and probably absorbed a lot of the impact rather than transferring it to the fuselage.
So... is your power pod toughened or is it weak?
What I did break was the firewall off of the power pod. The tape ripped and the hot glue let go. No other damage to the airframe.
I had built it with cheap packing tape over the firewall as I was out of the good stuff. I was about to repair it with good strong fiber or repair tape, until I realized that maybe that stuff letting go saved my motor shaft or at least my prop and spinner, and probably absorbed a lot of the impact rather than transferring it to the fuselage.
So... is your power pod toughened or is it weak?