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Prob building Phase 6 fuselarge.

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Happy Days:
There's an old saying Fred: Better late than never! :lol:

Many congratulations to you and to Mrs. Fred who did all the hard work. :clap:  :clap:  (Well, most of it.)

Now have some rest my friend, and I'll look forward to flying with you again soon and certainly more than once within the next decade!

Keith & Mandy

joe:
Great news Fred. Well done all round. Congratulations to you and Rachel.
I not worried I'm sure we'll have you out on the slope again soon.
Where there's a will there's a way and all that!
Or in your case "Where there's a HILL there's a way"  :D  :D

Happy Days:
"Where there's a Hill there's a way" ?

That's a very witty comment Joe :clap:

I can't belive you thought of that  :?:

joe:
I have my moments Keith. I surprise myself sometimes! :D

Happy Days:
They say a week is a long time in politics, it's even longer when you're a sloper without a plane! So I've repaired/ modified the Phase 6. I've even fixed the wing! I thought, "If Brian says it's fixable, it must be!" So I did.
I pressed the wing back into shape before filling the hole and bonding it together with a paste of epoxy and micro balloons. Fixed a new piece of LE and used light filler to fill in the remaining dents.



Then sanded it down to shape



And re-covered the repair.


Good as new! (Well, almost)

I through out the original controll rod and closed loop ruder controlls in favour of Sullivan plastic controll rods. Had to cut an access hole in the side of the fuse to fit a mid fusalarge support for the rods. (To stop them flexing during operation)



And I added another support for the rods in the wing saddle area.





Finally I had to replace the aileron servos. I chose metal geared ones this time. They were a bit smaller than the previous ones.





So a few pieces of packing made them fit snugly into the wing, with double sided tape to hold them in place.



I've recovered all the damaged areas and so now it's just a case of putting this bird back up in the sky where she belongs.

I'll be doing than in a couple of hours time with Joe and my new friend who's name I now understand is Maciek. (I met him last week on the slope)

So I'm off to Big L. Wish me luck. (Or better still,.......join me there!)

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