Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Airworthy again!

This is going to be a whole lot of pics of my repaired Extra 330L.  If I had planned properly, I would have taken pics of the carnage before doing the repair work.  As it is you only get an idea of the damage by seeing the extent of the repairs.  I'm ready to fly this plane again.  One thing dumb incidents do is teach me to be more careful for awhile, till I do something else dumb again!  I had a similar incident before with the CG Ultimate - caught the main LG on the top inch or two of the east end of the runway.  That time my LG stayed on and the plane just turned over on its top.  I can't recall any damage other than bending the wire LG, so I bent it back and it was fine.  Since the damage was much greater on the Extra, maybe I will learn the lesson better and longer, lol.

Two longerons on the left side were removed by the LG,
so I spliced in new pieces with doublers.
Doublers were set just below the finished surface so
that they would not show after being covered by Monokote.

Two thin layers of landing plates were ripped out
in the incident, they should be in the center of the pic!

I used the Dremel to grind away the male keys on
the side plates for interlocking to the main LG plates.
Here's a new LG plate of 1/4" hard ply, with male keys
for the firewall.  New blind nuts and bolts installed .
Plate in place with lots of 30 minute epoxy.
New formers on top of plate, behind firewall.
Added triangular stock behind firewall.
Added extra ply plate on side of new LG plate to
brace it to side plates better.
Added triangular stock on left side.  One was already on
right side.  Go figure...the highly paid China worker forgot one.

Monokote is back on!

Ahhh, feeling better with LG secured.

Large FG bandaid to repair damage caused by
muffler pipe when the plane slid to a stop on its belly.
Many FG patches on pants!
All PAU, stronger than before but not as pretty.
READY TO FLY!

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