What a great day of flying even though it was mostly foggy. I took both Goblins today, and got in 4 flights on the 500 and 3 on the 630. Due to low ceiling and limited visibility, I stayed pretty close with both and had much fun doing lower than usual flips and inverted hovering. When I was done with helis, the fog was dissipating and it was much fun to fly the Aerostar 40 low through the pockets of mist, and up high where the Aerostar 40 turned to a ghost. I got carried away though as pics will attest! I was having too much fun flying low and damaged the right wing tip of the plane.
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| Rats, on my last flight, I got too close to the Private Property sign! |
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| If just 3/4" higher, or 6" closer to me, the plane would have missed the sign post. |
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| The plane actually hit the top tip of the steel post, not the sign itself. Cuts balsa like butter! |
I went home and immediately got at repairing the plane. It is ready to fly again! With a slightly different color scheme, lol.
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Actually in this one, I already cut away most of the torn covering, and shredded balsa.
Also, I already glued two pieces of recovered LE back in place. Good that I collected them at the field! |
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| Repairs to wood completed. |
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Repairs done. Note perfect match of newly covered area to rest of wing.
Had to use transparent orange since I don't have transparent yellow. |
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