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Old 09-08-2015 | 12:34 AM
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smithfj
 
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From: Washburn, ME
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Hi Craig,
Yes I got it back in the air two days ago. I had a good flight and all the changes worked great Increasing aileron throw helped a lot in roll rate and the canopy lock worked great. I'm sure you have heard the song with the part " if I had no bad luck I'd have no luck at all". Well, on landing my touchdown was long and rollout was pretty fast. Our field has a cross runway at the end of the main one and I attempted to turn right on the dogleg and clipped the tall grass with the left side main gear. It ripped out the gear again and poked a hole in the wing stub and on the left outer wing panel. Holes were from those wheel pants. Two more things I learned on that flight. 1. Use flaps and two, land on the near end of the runway not half way down it. Maybe the third thing will be is to leave off the wheel pants on our grass strip. I'm not to disappointed in this incident- I had a good flight and was pleased with flight characteristics of the bird. Oh yes, the plies in the plywood actually separated on the gear mount as the 6-32 t-nuts pulled thru with the rest of the plywood intact. The landing rollout really wasn't that fast to cause the damage it did.
Frank