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Here's some pics of the Damage to The Dynamite.
It shows the enormous strength of this type of construction.

Looking at this I can understand why the wing doesn't ever flex in those tight turns, it does so well.

Here's the wing, at zone 4, is where it impacted with Adrians intecepter wing.
The foam is compressed and broken but it's taken a bit of the impact energy. The wing was torn clean off it's mounts this would have absorbed a bit of energy as well as partially releasing it from the inerta of the fuse, which is the heaviest part.

The outher skin has been damaged at zones 1 and 2 Classic compression failier at 2 and it extend into the aileron. This is failier of the core, being crushed, as the wing has been folded at this point. At 1 the skin has delaminated from the core and buckled up as it's been compressed due to the same folding of the wing. There is little damage where the wing has been spared.

I had to put a fair bit of force on it to show these failiers for the photo if I let it go the wing just sprang back to where it was originally.

There is a crack in the middle of zone 3 right allong the edge of the spar but I think this is impact damage and the skin has failed locally in sheer directly near where it's been hit as there is no sign of delamination. There is more impact damage further back from the spar at 3.

You can also see the remains of the dissassembeled servo left in the wing. The servo originally protruded from the underside of the wing by about 3mm and that was enough to catch and have most of it torn away. The other servo was stripped and the controll horn was torn from the aileron. Tho' there was no sign of impact damage on that side. Perhaps it was inerta, I've seen this before and wondered about that ??

   

   

Here's the other side of the wing You can see where the leading edge made contact and damage on the other side of zone 3

   

here's fuse relitivly unscathed