Sunday, December 13, 2020

An early Christmas present and Airplane repair

 12-9-2020
I saw this Edge 540 advertised on the Facebook Marketplace a couple of days ago.  I contacted the seller and we drove down to check it out.  It looked like a good one to practice aerobatics with so I bought it.  It had only been partly built so I can finish it the way I like.

12-11-2020

Josh and the boys came down today and brought us an early Christmas present that we are going to enjoy!
Jordon and Vera had a nice long session playing with the cars.  Jordon really liked one we have that he can take apart and put back together.  Jacob is starting to talk and was really interested in some color changing decorations we have.  He also discovered the button for changing the light pattern on our little Christmas tree.  The present was pretty cool, I had a good time setting it up and trying it out.

12-13-2020

The last couple of days I have been working on my Corsair, the left landing gear collapsed and it flipped over breaking the vertical fin.  After I got the landing gear repaired I started working on the rudder and found that not only was the vertical fin broken but the rudder was broken in four places.  After taking the covering off and repairing the breaks I added two carbon fiber rods to the vertical fin and one to the rudder.  I don't think it will break now!

I got the F-18 nose sanded to shape and fiberglassed.  Then I gave it a coat of white and three or four coats of yellow.  Hopefully this will help me keep track of it when flying with the other F-18s.

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