Post by Managing Composites

📢When Shit Hits the Fan📢 Well... that escalated quickly. 💥 A 1:2 scale RC Gripen suffered a catastrophic rudder failure mid-flight, and the result is exactly what you'd expect when aerodynamic loads suddenly win the fight. 👀 Every prototype eventually answers the same question: Did we engineer it well enough? Sometimes the answer comes gently. Sometimes it arrives at 200 km/h. The interesting part? Most of the structure was built from wood, with only a few composite components. Maybe it's time for a little more carbon fiber on version two. 😏

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