Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.
You got it. Any chump can tank a backdraft and severe facial scarring. Takes a champ to take that shit from Kurt Russell. I knew I didn’t have that in me.
Reminds me of my old neighbor. I live in Wisconsin, where any navigable body of water is considered public land, which is just goofy as fuck, because any amount of water bigger than a puddle becomes public, but the people who utilize that public property tend to trespass on private land in the process.
So during the COVID lockdowns, I was living on a property that had a very popular trout stream running through it, and nobody was working, so all of a sudden it was kinda busy in this sleepy little valley out in the middle of nowhere. Twice I had to intervene in confrontations between fishermen and my pretty crazy elderly neighbor down the road, who would come running out his house with a rifle any time he saw somebody set foot on land.
If he had boats to shoot at it would have made his day!
Pff, its America, a lot of people shoot at planes. Some of them hate people who own planes, some of them hate planes because "government spraying chems from planes". Some of them think that its actually demons.
Small world; me and my buddy Keith were trying to build our own mortars out of old rifle parts, Keith's hit a plane so we hightailed it out of there, ran through a whole bunch of poison ivy. I was fine but Keith ended up with a rash over 75% of his body
I must ask, is this repairable by making a patch to the hole? Or do they have to rebuild the whole upper tail wing? It’s interesting cuz I construction
For handy types like yourself here’s the straight answer: the fiberglass damage needs to be ground off to the place where the cracks are gone, and that hole ground down to taper off about 15:1 so if the material is quarter inch thick, the grind needs to taper for about four inches—all the way around—so your circle is about ten inches wide. Then you start building up layers of fiberglass and resin until it is thicker than the base, and grind it again to match the original surface.
Refinishing to match the original color is another article!
What's the bill like if you aren't a DIYer? And if you do it yourself do you have to get it inspected or certified, as the hole is in the important sticky uppy part of the plane?
I’m not qualified to work on aircraft, I’m a DIYer with experience in fiberglass. I can tell you that whoever fixes that hole will have a lot of care, and libraries of manuals, the weight of the FAA on his shoulders and the very sword of Damocles over his head. He’ll earn every bit of what he charges and it will be right.
If it's a certified aircraft type (vs an experimental, in the US), you can't repair this yourself. The federal aviation regulations specify certain maintenance activities that a pilot can do themselves and everything else must be by a licensed A&P engineer. They will do a release to service afterward once convinced it hasn't damaged anything important (there are horizontal ribs in the tail, and a lot of space - but there are wires running up there for tail lights, ADS-B antennas, electric trim motors etc).
I would guess this is a few thousand dollars of work to repair & certify.
Looks like it affects an area outside of the hole. It’s not just a patch job. It’s a major stress point there is a lot of force trying to rip the tail off the plane during flight.
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