| Thanks Grahame,I thought as much,you were indeed lucky to get out of that situation,this is exactly how I lost my Pou De Ciel when the wings flexed in a bank,despite having flown her for hundreds of flights.
So many problems for scale models can be traced at source from the original machine,and as you say a little bit of research can pay dividends.
Aileron flutter is another thing,very frightening,no wonder a lot of full size machines have been lost this way,imagine a huge wing beginning to flutter and just break up in flight ? it happened to the Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 Flying wing design,the pilot made the first use of an ejector seat for real.
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