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by pcoughran » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:46 am
I hate to say it again - but my gear broke just from setting the plane on its gear - no rolling, no playing, no nothing.
I made sure two of us were looking at it as I gently lay it down and watched both springs compress equally all the way down. All connections were correct too. A couple hours later, the gear failed (the one without the metal rod which should have had a metal rod in it). Once it failed the pressure on the remaining gear caused them to fail as well.
I believe these are failing because they are poorly designed and QC is terrible, not because people are doing "carrier landings" with them. Sure a few people probably rolled theirs a bit at first. But after all the warnings originally, many like me were overly cautious with the gear, just wanting to display the bird on its gear, and still had failure.
I don't think many who bought this are treating it like a toy, maybe a small handful who first received theirs, but not the majority.
"Where's dat waskily wabbit?"
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