It has been a while since my last report in, so here we go.

Used the corn starch to recover some of the wood and it worked well enough. So I stripped off the really bad fuel damaged skin and put some new balsa on. Worked fine and have now completely taken the covering and adhesive off the plane. Time consuming it was, but I am real happy with the results. The old standard school eraser worked well. Will start recovering soon. Here is a pic. I think it is still optimistic to say this will be done before the first race, but we shall see. I still have an entire wing to do. Got my replacement parts, such as canopy and fillets from Tomas at VQwarbirds.com. When we are done we shall see what the total tally is for resotration on this bad boy. Here is a pic to show some progress.

Jake