We did it about 3 or 4 times before that flight. I think our mistake was that we used rubber bands to support the wire that turns the gear, so it's steerable. We believe that i broke in flight and thats why it didn't turn back to being stright. After the flight we are using coil springs, and we did it about 20 times, so we hope to have that set for the event. My honest opinion, if I saw that wheel fell off, I would have went around, and put the gear up, so when it hit the nose gear, it only would have hurt the scoop on the bottom of the plane.
From what he said, it was heavy. I'm not sure if it was just heavy in general, or was it because of the floppy gear, and the gear door that kept flexing in flight. I guess we didn't make the gear door strong enough. We made it out of fiberglass covering, which is realy soft in itself. As for the next flight, we don't realy have a good enough reason to use him, other than the experience, but I think I'm more than qualified to fly that, after what happend yesterday. My Hellcat had an aeiloron the started to flutter in flight. Saved that with no damage, other than the aeiloron of course.
I can send that out in an E-Mail, you will just have to give my your adress. I cain't wait to see that fly again, as much as you guys do.
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