6155X is now back at Chino awaiting repairs. We made it back late last night. A huge thank you to Marc Baca for changing his flight home to help me get loaded up and drive back.
Upon looking further at the plane, all wing spars paper to be ok. Unfortunately and surprisingly it is the center main spar that is broken. It will need new belly skin and FWF. I just need to decide if I want to change the airfoil or not. I found some very interesting stuff when examining the wing attach fittings. I fabricated and installed wing tanks by bolting them through the spars. They were slid in from the root. The fuel tanks did not rupture and I think helped save the wings spars. I will see if I can get some pics up somewhere. The plane will fly again. Just a bit of tlc and maybe a few speed mods to try to keep up with Richard Shirley. Thank you to the KR family for your concern and well wishes regarding my crash. It really helped ease the pain of the situation. Finally, I would like to thank Russ Barnett for his kindness and generosity of sharing his People's Choice award with me. His plane is absolutely gorgeous and he deserves the awards he received. He is a first class member of our KR family and it is a privilege to know him and count him as a friend. Regards, Steve Glover Sent from my iPhone On Oct 2, 2012, at 22:10, Larry Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > We made it home today without another tire failure. We stayed in West Memphis > Sunday night and never saw Elvis. We decided to stay in HotSprings Monday > night and never saw Bill. I was hoping for a sighting!(bummer). > I don't know how but I failed to thank Jack Cooper for bringing his airplane > and using it to give many of us BFRs again. That is very gracious of him and > I thought a public recognition of his kind service was in order. He has been > doing this for our group for many years, what a thoughtful man he is. > Thank you Mr Cooper. > > > Larry H > Sent by Apple Device > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
