My F-4E from BananaHobby!!

[BTCat]

Elk, who's going to shoot the video at that speed? That will be tough to keep up with.

BTW, Shove this up BH's .... well, never mind. There is no excuse for the things I have heard about them on a couple of forums.

[akent]

Incredibly sad.

Elk, have you thought about taking that huge EDF and strapping it to one of your helis?

[BTCat]

Elk, did you ever get this up and going?

[elkmaster01]

OK,,,an update on this misery. I flew the 90 mm F-4E,,it made 7 seconds before it fell apart. Here's the the results;





You can see in the second photo that the bulkhead behind the canopy failed,,,it had a little glue on the top and bottom but the majority of the bulkhead had absolutely no glue on it. The fuselage is preassembled,,there is no way of seeing this during the build. This is a heavy jet,,,it was doomed to crash.

I contacted BH again,,,,had to get Pete involved,,he agreed that it was a munufacturers defect and agreed to send me the airframe only replacement kit. That was on the 11th of Feb,,,,it still has not shipped. They promised to ship it the week of the 11th,,,then again they promised to ship it last week,,as of today,,it has not shipped but they promise,,,"by the end of the week".

Sooooo,,,a jet I ordered on the 5th of Jan is still not airborne. It's a shame,,,BH has a lot of nice looking planes,,,but most is stuff you can't get anywhere else.

[19000rpm]

So you still don't have the replacement airframe?

[elkmaster01]

Just got it,,,,,,I'm going to try and repair this one and get it airborne,,,Snow is melting,,it needs to dry up before I can fix up my runway.

[akent]

Any way to inject a few gallons of glue in the seams, so it won't come apart again?

[19000rpm]

Well, at least they finally sent it.

Sounds like a job for Gorilla Glue. I had an airframe split were it had, sorta', kinda', been glued together and it never came apart after I GG'd it.

Weather' soggy here too. It has been like that for about 5 days and it looks like it'll stick around for at least another week. Positive note: My build projects are finally getting the attention they deserve. ;D

[elkmaster01]

Mar 9, 2010 20:18:19 GMT -6 akent said:

Any way to inject a few gallons of glue in the seams, so it won't come apart again?

Yea,,,since it is in half now I'll have to do a LOT of gluing. The nose section halves are not glued at all except for the very end of the nose cone. This jet is big and heavy,,,EVERYTHING should be glued together. I'll keep the airframe kit as a stand-by and try to get this one airborn. I'm in no hurry,,,my grass runway won't be ready for about a month. This is a great looking jet,,,the manufacturer is a cheap no-gluing bastard!!