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On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:55:08 -0500, "J.Kahn" <jdkahn@REMOVEvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
>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
I pegged a 4-G g-meter on a landing once. No damage, and that was on a gear leg
that had been improperly repaired from a crash 15 years earlier.
Ron Wanttaja
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Re: Glue it to it
