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I once amazed myself by bouncing a Flybaby about 8 or so feet in the
air, which I thought wasn't possible with just tires for shock absorption
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> I have worked on three Fly Babies, two from the eighties and one from the
> seventies. Their glue joints were sturdy, and one of them had had some
> awful rough landings which broke the 4130 landing gear and ruined some
> of the welded steel fuselage attach fittings. Best I could tell the
> glue in all three was resorcinol. Pete Bowers is an honored immortal
> for designing such a great little wooden airplane that can flare 20
> feet off the deck and still remain intact.
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> Somewhere in Ron Wanttaja's literature I read of a Fly Baby
> cartwheeling and the wings did not collapse. Fuselage was damaged but
> the pilot lived to tell the story.
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Re: Glue it to it
