Fixing broken planes

Squishyp38 · Post by **Squishyp38** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:26 pm

I was test gliding my rufe, because I figured that it actually was NOT too heavy to fly, but I accidentally broke some of the wing spars. My question is if this happens, do I have to cut the tissue off then splice the broken parts and recover it?

ADW 123 · Post by **ADW 123** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:24 pm

once you break it its never the same even if you do try to fix it. but you could do that.

supercruiser · Post by **supercruiser** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:45 pm

You can repair it. Here is a video link of someone repairing a balsa model airplane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxs74Vi9wI
There are other video links on this forum, I'll bump the thread up to the front page.

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:01 am

If you can break it, you can fix it.

Just strip off some of the tissue where the damage is, replace or strengthen the broken parts, and recover.