Here you can see the wing damage repair entering it’s final stages. As you can see below, we added some superfill on the rudder-cable-delamination repair, as well as a couple of low spots on the main repair, and on the strobe repair and some miscellaneous dips in the skin finish. It’s funny what you find once you really start trying to make everything really smooth. For instance, I’d never noticed the “swale” at the strake join line where the wing surface starts to rise rather than be flat, kind of Corsair gull-wing style. My buddy Andy says they all do this. Who knew? You can also see the fill work on the bottom of the wing repair.
Delamination filling |
Bottom Filling |
Top Wing Filling |
Top Wing Filling |
Strobe Repair Filling |
New Hoses Secured in Engine Compartment |
New Hoses Supply to Nose |
New Hoses Return from Nose |
Posted By: Brett FerrellSaturday February 7th, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Categories: Incident Repairs Tags: Building Incident Repairs
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