Oh well. Back to the drawing board…

[MrScorpio]

[In_The_Wind]

1. wonder how many hours it to build that

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. Too many!

Poor guy.

[In_The_Wind]

3. another one of those times when: it's about the trip, not the destination.

although a successful flight over and over again, would have been the preferred outcome.

yep, poor guy.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. At least 50% of life is about the trip rather than the destination

I hope he rebuilds.

[In_The_Wind]

5. all depends on how bad he wants it

imo: it will be a challenge to get it right, well worth the effort upon successful completion.

me too

[frogmarch]

6. Two words:

Duck tape - EZ Start clear cellophane, or something like it. Or, if the plane's a foamy, there's a good foam glue that would work.

It's probably fixable, but it looks like it needs to be trimmed.

Mr. froggy builds and flies model planes, and sometimes he crashes them and brings them home in a bucket. Several of his planes are mostly tape now, but they fly just fine.

[Gorp]

7. With all that open space, why throw it there? I don't get the thinking.

Although perhaps "thinking" didn't factor into the incident.