A plane to go with my Depron XB70 Valkyrie

As reported in been flying I crunched the nose cone of the XF108.
 
Now replaced and all silver again.
 
Too windy (and cold!) to test it.
 

I may have broken the black Hunter but the Rapier is now complete - again!
 
i will have to be a bit more careful the last "now complete" picture of the Rapier after a repair was just 11 days ago!   
 

OOOPS!
A bit of a disaster and not the result of a flight but simply my weight. 
I tripped and managed to fall on to the F108.
This picture is after several days of repairs!
 
The problem is the foam it is built from is particularly flexible so tends to bend and crush rather than break. The result is many of the more serious bends had to be properly broken so it could be glued back together.hence much filling to restore the surface finish.
Difficult to tell how much strength is lost on what was never a particularly rigid airframe! 

Something lsimilar happened a year or so ago, at our club. The chairman had got a bee in his bonnet about securing models to the ground whilst starting engines - with a strap around the tail-feathers to a peg in the ground.
Poor chap tied his model down securely, started the engine, got momentarily distracted, picked the model up and began to walk to the flightline, the model of course - didn't want to go - so he put it down again, turned to untie it, and tripped over the strap, squashing the model comprehensively (it was a lightweight balsa funfly!

I always tied my 50cc models down in Cyprus, actually tied it to my car as we had next to the pits

 

Now all back together and painted.
 
Not as neat as it was but the "soft" foam picks up 'dings' very easily so it looks "well used" although it has only flown twice!