My incident occured on July 25th.....I was in contact with BV shortly thereafter, and several calls since that time.....he has been addressing the issue since then, but with the hurricanes and shipping delays, delivery of the new booms has been held up a bit.....

While inspecting the broken boom sections, I did notice that the actual sandwich did not appear to be quite as solid as I would like.....several spots where the fiberglass inner lining is not stuck to the foam layer, well away from the damaged area.....There are some glue voids between the rather soft balsa bulkheads and around the ply doublers of the anti-rotation pin receivers.....

All of these point to the need to tighten up some of the quality control on the Thailand production line, which I am sure Bob is taking care of as well as using some C/F in the sandwich.......as I noted, this was one of the very early production kits, maybe one of the first 2 or 3 Navy Training Pattern birds delivered last October.....

Depending on how the new booms look, I still might add a little more beef similar to what Barry or David have done.....these booms are like landing gear plates....so much easier to beef up before they crack than repair after the fact...

Tom