Toxic,
Yah, little dollar signs appear in your eyes on the maiden flight.
I love flying with them though: a whole new experience with a prop only turning 3500-4000 rpm's. I always rationalize that I'd rather have 10 real nice planes rather than 50 average planes!
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Wing repair:
Been getting down into the 30's but heated the detached shop to get a few things done (so much for global warming!).
Got the wing on the bench.
One wing tip broke off. It was a clean break of the balsa block tip and easy to epoxy back on.
Really not much damage to the wing. The two pylons have to be rebuilt as they took the brunt of the belly landing.
The gear doors got banged up.
The two thin, movable gear doors needed to be re-built.
Either ABS 1/16" plastruct or ABS 1/16" with fake looking CF look can be used.
I just used the old ones as templates to make the new doors, glued 1/4" square balsa to the inside, covered them with aluminum tape and screwed on the hinges and ball link connections.
