Painted Fuselage: V1200

1 review for Painted Fuselage: V1200

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   Rated 1 out of 5

   Les Meyerowitz (verified owner) – 31 January 2022

   See email to Johan dd 28/01:
   Hi Johan

   Please see the attached pics as per our conversation today.

   A brief history of the V 1200 is as follows:

   • Received as a birthday gift in May 2021
   • Successful maiden
   • Approximately thirty flights thereafter
   • Problematic retracts from the start with having to bend after each flight as they are not strong enough(Common problem if you research on the internet)
   • Had a bad strong cross wind take off a few months ago and damaged the fuselage
   • Ordered a replacement fuselage from JK Products which took approx. 2-3 months to arrive in JHB(Received via your courier-Courier Guy)
   • Reassembled the new fuselage with motor/esc/servos from damaged fuselage
   • Checked CG, balanced new prop(APC 10×10) and ensured that everything else was serviceable
   • Remaidened yesterday(27/01/2022) at Barnstormers in JHB and just after rotating the nose/motor cone separated from the fuselage and landed approx. 20m in front of the fuselage(also a common issue if you research the internet)

   I feel that Horizon should stand behind their product and replace the entire kit as the retracts have been inadequate from flight #1 and the nose cone separation is a factory defect as the 4 carbon longitudinal spars hardly touch the female receiving points in the nose cone and that if a reasonable amount of adhesive(epoxy) had been applied to the nose cone and spar are when manufactured, then this may not have occurred.

   I have more than 25 years of RC flying experience and a few years back did a lot of LSA competition flying. This is the 1st time that I have had a structural failure caused by a latent defect occur to any of my planes during this period.

   Looking forward to you assisting me in getting this resolved.

   Kind regards

   Les Meyerowitz
   083 679 3389
   Senior Sales Advisor

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