Ooh, close call... and a good catch for me

John Goddard wrote: Rusty
That's a fine voice you have there.

Ain't I smooth.

Good catch Rusty, if the Streak is going to go down in a blaze of glory, then it should be because of some awesome stunt and not a busted off control horn.

cribbs74 wrote:Good catch Rusty, if the Streak is going to go down in a blaze of glory, then it should be because of some awesome stunt and not a busted off control horn.

Yeah, that would have been sickening. I would have been sad and mad. I worked some more on the Refried Bean after that, but I'll have the streak ready for Saturday. It should be a pretty easy fix. I think I'm going to try the next higher hole on the horn this time. Right now I have it in the bottom of 3 holes. It has very little deflection in the bottom hole, but it's amazing what it will do like that.

I fixed the Streak's elevator. I cut out and drilled a 1/16" doubler for the screw to seat against on top and epoxied it in place, then epoxied a strip of fiberglass cloth on the underside for the horn to seat against. After I checked the elevator throw, it was much more that I was getting before, so it must have been flexing for a while. There's clearly no need to raise the control rod to the next hole, it gets plenty of deflection now.

I also found why the Li'l Satan's Tee Dee was surging and stuttering during last week's flight. It was just the fuel line crimping in the wind. It was too short, so I fixed that. I was excited about getting both planes in the air today. So I loaded up the Radio Flyer and towed it to the door of the shop to find out I was actually about to start scraping and painting my wife's potting table. So I scraped and I scraped and I painted and I painted until I was worn to a to a sore limping frazzle.

So after a beer and a bowl of chili, the next time my eyes opened, the sun was setting and college football was getting cranked up, and so goes my Saturday excursion.


Oh well, I'll be all tuned up, ready to pick up and go next time. I don't fly at the church on Sunday. But maybe I can post an actually entertaining report pretty soon.

And then my team lost a head busting slobber knocker by 2 points at the LSU Tigers.

That elevator problem musta been from hittin' that tree when you made the video.

As far as the potting table...we all get smacked up 'side the head with a "honey do" once in awhile.

Good catch on that elevator AND the fuel tubing.

George

gcb wrote:That elevator problem musta been from hittin' that tree when you made the video.

As far as the potting table...we all get smacked up 'side the head with a "honey do" once in awhile.

Good catch on that elevator AND the fuel tubing.

George

That could very well have been from the tree hit. I couldn't find any evidence of a collision at the time, but I must have missed that. I had assumed it was the wing that smacked it. It should have had a doubler anyway. Brodak misses a thing or two here and there in their kits. My Bean didn't have any bracing on the elevator either but I added it.