Hey Rick, my club was very sympathetic as well, and I thank you and Joe. I guess it does happen to most of us and we try to learn from it. I'm going to use a check list for now on. It hurts when you had a plane for so long and it doesn't matter to me if it's a ARF, I got attached to it and it is my second favorite plane. Also, what makes it hurt even more was the fault was entirely on me, and I should have known better. I think I have my foot stuck up my butt because I keep kicking it too hard when I think about it what happened. But with my skills and talent loaned by God, and support from my loving wife, I can rebuild everything on the plane even the top wing. But what I'm going to do is use a spare top wing I had when I first flew it. (Covering started to pull from edges on that wing, so I just stripped the original 3 years ago, and I still have it. It's just waiting to be cleaned and recovered.)


The crushed top wing- I have on my shelf and it can be fixed that you saw in the video. the main spar did not break, so when I'm done doing my rebuild and modification, I'll fix the wing like it never even happened. I too saved the old cowl. I plan on making a mold out of blue foam, shaping it exactly to the old cowl and will try to make one myself. Just trying to figure out where I can find the screen mesh that's on the front of the cowl Hanger9 used is another question.

I'm also planning on making a workable shock tailskid and it will have a pull-pull system for the rudder and elevator. I love this faze of the building part because my brain is hard at work the design. (I just have to make sure I don't paint myself in the corner) My plane is now all bare bones now thanks to my trusted heat gun and safety razor, I didn't break a darn thing. [8D]

I should be starting my rebuild thread at RCG soon, maybe tomorrow. I have to clean up a little and get the camera ready, I also have corn starch all over my table and floor, not to mention I have shop clutter everywhere.

Some old fuel did work it's way in the landing gear legs and bottom of the plane under the covering near the cowl, so I'm slowely pulling out the oil from the wood. I figure a few days of that along with elbo grease and a little acetone, I should be OK. All the paint and detail work has all been removed as well.

I just ordered the wing struts, and WB 1/6 scale spandaus to mix with the Hanger9 guns to make it 1/5 scale. I did it on the Dr1 if you guys remember?

Glad you had a good time Rick, your Taylorcraft looks nice and you flew it well. On camera your DR1 looks fantastic and you handled that very well. Your landing was also very good! [8D] After a while you will get used to those new tires. Actually the GP stock tires were not scale and was too big, but it did help with the ground control and they were lighter. The 1/5 scale vintage tires you have on it is scale, just doesn't match what was used on the DR1 because the spokes on the rims didn't show- if you know what I mean. But while it is flying or at a distance, most people can't tell, and it will do IMO.

Pete