Here is a flight report from a Moni motorglider, similar to the one erroneously pictured at dancewithshadows.com: http://edhlund.com/PIREP01.htm http://edhlund

Here is a flight report from a Moni motorglider, similar to the one erroneously pictured at dancewithshadows.com: http://edhlund.com/PIREP01.htm http://edhlund.com/PIREP01.htm On my seventh flight I was ready for some mild aerobatics. I entered a left barrel roll at 4000 ft. and, 3/4 complete, experienced airframe vibration, loss of elevator control and nose pitchdown. I closed the throttle and held full back elevator but the pitch attitude, airspeed and vibration level all continued to increase until I was at a nearly 90 degree nosedown attitude and the airframe sounded like I was inside a garbage can being assaulted by baseball bats. About this time there was a tremendous "crack" and the airplane dissapeared from around me. I was tumbling through the air losing conciousness, but still strapped in my seat. Because of the violent motion I was unable to release the lap belt. The last thing I remember before losing conciousness was reaching for my parachute D-ring while saying goodbye to the world. Miraculously, I regained conciousness on the ground, where I slowly realized that I was still strapped to the rear of the airframe, which had joined me in a fully unconcious parachute descent to a sitting landing in a nice plowed field. Another complete story follows where I got the seat belt released, only to be parachute dragged in a 20 knot wind with one arm and a dislocated shoulder entangled in the shroud lines, before finally shedding the chute. There were lots of broken bones and aches and pains. The NTSB investigation revealed that the starboard wing skin had debonded. The skin had departed outward, broken the spar and broken the aircraft in half at the spar box. After some healing, and doing some research, I found that experts had been advising Monnett against this bonding method. He subsequently mandated a riveted wing, but didn't describe why as eloquently as I could have. Your editor, Carlos Emmons, and I then stripped the bonded skin from his wings (he wasn't flying yet) so easily it couldn't be believed. A little loosening with a knife at the trailing edge to get a finger hold, and a single jerk had the whole skin in our hands! We had bonded both aircraft and followed the book. ... You do not have a certificated aircraft. The designer probably had no engineering skills, expertise or resources.