stangflyer
I like 'em "BIG"!
Well, I bit the bullet tonight and ordered all the wood needed to complete the repairs to the big Pilot 40% 129" Yak belly. After her sudden and most bogus fall from the sky due to a dead stick landing, the belly at the landing gear area was quite badly damaged. I had contemplated "not" repairing it and just simply replacing the airframe. But there are just too many new 'frames coming out soon that I want so, I will just rebuild the Yak, AGAIN.... Lol.
After the initial shock of my 210 dying and then the walk of shame, I was just so disappointed and discouraged. But this hobby will remind you very quickly "WHY" we do, what we do. If you're gonna play, you're gonna pay. And much like riding a wild bronc, If you get bucked off, you get right back on the horse. It is a love affair and a passion. Not to mention a drug that feeds off your soul and pocket book. But I have to say, it's worth it.
As you all will see, this re-build is going to be very time consuming but I think it will be worth it. I have seen much worse. I have repaired and rebuilt much worse. Others I have seen have not been as badly damaged and I have trashed them. But hey, this is a BIG OLE' YAK. I just gotta put her back in the air.
Posted here are the photos of the damage. I carefully pulled back the covering to expose the skeleton of the Yak so that I could ascertain the damage and order wood. This will probably take me as long to repair as it did to do the restore on it earlier this year. Stay with me everyone, hopefully it will be interesting and educational. Please by all means, if any of you have suggestions, advice or general input...please don't hesitate chiming in. I welcome all suggestions any of you may have.
Here we go...again.
After the initial shock of my 210 dying and then the walk of shame, I was just so disappointed and discouraged. But this hobby will remind you very quickly "WHY" we do, what we do. If you're gonna play, you're gonna pay. And much like riding a wild bronc, If you get bucked off, you get right back on the horse. It is a love affair and a passion. Not to mention a drug that feeds off your soul and pocket book. But I have to say, it's worth it.
As you all will see, this re-build is going to be very time consuming but I think it will be worth it. I have seen much worse. I have repaired and rebuilt much worse. Others I have seen have not been as badly damaged and I have trashed them. But hey, this is a BIG OLE' YAK. I just gotta put her back in the air.
Posted here are the photos of the damage. I carefully pulled back the covering to expose the skeleton of the Yak so that I could ascertain the damage and order wood. This will probably take me as long to repair as it did to do the restore on it earlier this year. Stay with me everyone, hopefully it will be interesting and educational. Please by all means, if any of you have suggestions, advice or general input...please don't hesitate chiming in. I welcome all suggestions any of you may have.
Here we go...again.
