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I'm drowning, in bits of an Mu28
Happy Days:
Ahhh!…….good to see you back Mon Ami. :D
That’s the conclusion I came too after all the other good advise I received.
Work on the wing has stopped for the moment while I build a stronger and longer work bench 8) ……Longer… for obvious reasons, and stronger… because of the total weight it’ll have to support when the obechi is applied.
I’ve also had to take some time out to perform open heart surgery on my beloved Alpina :shock: , following an disastrous launch. :cry:
I really don’t know what went wrong. I launched the plane, she flew for a moment before flaring up vertically, stalling, falling back down and landing on her tail,(still verticle) then cart wheeled onto her right wing tip. At this point the fuse broke in half :( (literally half way along its length.)
I couldn’t believe my eyes, and promptly burst into tears. :oops: A very nice young lady :) (probably in her eighties) tried to consol me in my distress and offered me a tissue to wipe my eyes.
K.
Fred:
:lol: nice lady, keep her if you can! :D :P
Good luck with the repairs, thanksfully, a fuselage is easy fixed, but let us know if you need some help :D
Fred:
Was browsing the Interweb, and found this...
Motivation back? :mrgreen: O:)
Happy Days:
Okay, okay,……I’m working on it!
The three sections of the left wing half are stuck together, carbon tape has been epoxyed into the top of the wing and light filler sanded down to aprox profile shape.
Two days ago I epoxyed the obechi to the top of the wing as you can see in the picture. Unknown to me at the time, some of the epoxy has percolated through the obechi and stuck bits of the top foam blank to the top of the wing! You can see the little bits of styrene on the top of the wing. They’re not just laying there,…..they’re stuck there! :oops:
Some constructors recommended using 700+ kgs weight when gluing the obechi, some told me they had just used old telephone directories,……I ended up using 300kg over the entire wing half, with most of the weight concentrated near the root half of the wing.
I’m still haunted by the thought of these wings snapping half way through a tight loop so I’m going to insert a wooden spar and another strip of carbon tape on the underside of the wing. But first I need to find a Wing joiner socket to fit into the root of this wing half.
So, little by little she starts to take shape. 8)
Just turning to Freds picture, it does look a quite magnificent beast! (The plane I mean, not the guy carrying it ) :roll:
K.
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