Repairing the ft3D.

Hey so who ever saw my last post, ly bad luck with ft3D (http://flitetest.com/articles/unlucky-with-ft3d), would know what happend :p so my nose of fuse broke, and i thought why not just make this into a trainer and make one more as the main plane. so like this one is made to crash and i did some minor mods and damn it turned out to be sturdy. i can throw it in the room and still not damage it :D so i guess its worth trying for whoever has a spare ft3d or a broken one, And what i did can be done in much better way but as i am doing it for a trainer, bah! i'm lazy :p So here it goes.

This is how it broke. The wings came out, Nose broke, pod came out, and bottom came out with landing gears,

So First to the bottom part. this is how it looked after the crash,

So carefully take out tge bottom piece from where the fuse starts to bend. No not really i just made one cut and pulled it out :p 

And then replaced it witg another foam piece. Easy as that. Moving on,

This is one side of fuse. 1st picture, the foam was broken with a crack almost till the wing mount. So i just cut out a simple shape but still keeping longer surface which helps keep friction in the new piece of foam i was about to put in. Then i just cut the foam piece according to the gaps and fitted in kind of okay. this can be done with precision and more sanding to just fuse it in. but again its just a trainer and this is kind of a laxy fix :p i did put in small pieces of squires just to make it stronger, glued it in, sanded a bit, covered with tape. Later i cover with just normal white paper and it looks as new.

One more thing i did is mostly due to any sort of glitch or watsoever, the plane intents to break its nose in crash. so i just took some wire, shaped it to nose shape and glued it on to it. Believe me this alone can make the plane stronger. i even threw the fuse on to the nose, its damn sturdy. 

Then i just coated it with some paper so it just looks like new when flying :D 

Did add squire around servo to hold them tighter and also thought of covering the paper by transparent tape, sp while mounting servos hot goue wont stick to the tape as much as it would to the squires.

Now put in the wings and eletronics and fly :D

And well the plane's not as good as new but still its much sturdy then the original one :p 

Planning to make one final ft3d with permanent pod instead of a swapable and also looking forward to the ft spitfire as it is really interesting.