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Uploaded by on Mar 2, 2008

My friend Hunter crashed his Alpha trainer after the wing broke in mid air.

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  • too quickly. case down on throttel stick! the plane can not withstand such high speed. :-)

  • This aircraft is to teach bare beginners who have never flown. The thing that i see on youtube and real life alot is people get over confident and attempt aerobatics to where the plane is not designed for that type of flying. a few things are It's long wingspan and constrution is not designed to handle the higher G-forces. With a flat bottem wing and higher g turns are mixed the enormous pressure on the bottem of the wing forces the wings up and they snap in flight unless they can handle it.

  • @puggster I was about to say the same thing... He was doing maneuvers not meant for the plane... it was only immanent...

  • its the thing with trainers,

    when people learn to fly with them they begin to go crazy doing all kinds of aerobatics that the plane simply cant handle

    high G climb outs and strenuous maneuvers should only be attempted on sport planes that have adequate strength to cope with such maneuvers

    perhaps wing struts and extra epoxy to secure the wing before attempting high speed maneuvers

    anyhoos lessons are often learned the hard way

  • The first thing we learn before flying is security. Furthermore, the guy is not able to fly simple straight lines and turns. So, I'ts a FAIL.

  • flying a 5lb 70mph plane in a residential area is just "plane" nuts.

  • I can't get enough if this vid - too funny.

    First the double-clap and then "Oh, shit."

  • Guys, you don't want to be pulling up hard while going fast with any trainer - it's not just this model. Trainers have lots of wing area with dihedral and they will put a lot of stress in the middle of the wing.

    The Avistar (not old version) is a sport trainer that can do some acro (just don't go crazy)

  • Man same thing happened to me check it out on hacker8675309 channel the title of the video is LT 40 kadet wing breaks off! Happy flying

  • Mine did the same thing on a hard landing, junk fucking shit. The wing joiner is junk balsa instead of aluminum. You pull up too hard and snap...

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