A not too cold day (4 to 8 degrees at 1pm), winds 16 to 24km NW. Not too bad. Worse in the days following.

I'll be out at 1pm, hopefully for a couple hours, maybe 2 hours.

Just simple, easy to fly stuff.

On my calendar!

Frank

ps: it may be the last time before we have a hard water issue.

Yes, we are that dedicated, although some people use other qualifier to describe our plan to go sailing on Monday Nov 17, 2025, at 2:00pm.
Weather forecast at the time of writing this missive is for a cold day, with adequate winds, we could end-up with something altogether different.
I plan on bringing one sailboat with fresh and dry batteries.
Hope to see you there!  This may very well be the last sail for 2025.

Guy (a.k.a. Admiral of the Fleet)

Yay!! Winter flying has arrived.

Great sticky snow today!!!
😂❄️
Andy

Sounds like a fun time!
However, I will be in Montreal to welcome the New Year.
Guy

Come join us at Rogo for a New Year's flight at 11 am New Year's Day...if my wife lets me live that long. :-)

Join me at Tim's Woodbine at 10 am for breakfast/coffee to muster up the energy to freeze to death at the Field.
I have flown every New Year's day for the past 35 years.  There have been beautiful sunny days and awfully cold days, no snow and a foot of snow.  There have been two hours of flying on a beautiful day and 30 seconds for an extremely cold day.
We will see what Global Warning has in store for us on New Year's Day.  :-)

Frank

Patching the foam and sheeting:

Order of things:
1) cut the patch first.  Photo 23. I used a piece of mahogany from a Dumas boat kit.
2) lay the patch on top of the wing and cut the wing sheeting the size of the patch.  Photo 24.  Note the silver spatula in the open joint in the foam (weak spot)
3) glue the patch in place
4) sand the patch- sand off the high spots and fill the low spots.

Problem:
- When I cut the wing sheeting a layer of foam came with it (large bead white foam). See photo 25.  It shows foam on the bottom of the cut sheeting.
- there was an open joint (chord-wise) in the foam. Photo 24

Solution:
- filled in a layer of thinned 5 minute epoxy.  Put in 50% denatured alcohol and mixed in micro balloons as a light filler.
- could not get the glue to lay flat so I added a piece of 3/4 ounce fibreglass cloth. Photo 26.
- bent the wood patch by wetting to top side.  It formed the correct curl. Photo 27
- added the wood patch to flatten the micro balloon filler and cloth.  Pinned the edges in place.  Photo 28

Letting it cure overnight.

Frank

replacing the missing trailing edge.
There was about 1" missing so I cut about 5" away so the joints are nowhere near the break in the wing.
Used a piece of plywood as a new trailing edge.

Note the 45 degree joints on both the trailing edge and the new plywood insert (both ends).

Photo report:
20- shows the trailing edge cut away and the new plywood insert above it.
21- used straight metal edges and clamps to make sure the trailing edge stays straight while the glue dries.

Next steps- figure out a way to fill in the missing foam.

So by making the plane now available just by itself... we've achieved a MASSIVE PRICE DROP. 

I'm now selling it in FOUR options:

Option 1: Just the plane FULLY BUILT: $650.00

Option 2: Plane FULLY BUILT with $337 worth of servos: $950

Option 3: Plane FULLY BUILT with the above mentioned 6 servos + RimFire 63-62-250Kv motor: $1,150

Option 4: Plane FULLY BUILT with servos + RimFire 63-62-250Kv motor + Castle Creations Phoenix ICE2 80A HV ESC: $1,300

Give yourself a rare early christmas gift!

Thanks Colin. 

The badly damaged wing.  The tip portion (2') broke off completely.  We recovered some small sections of wood and foam
Turns out there was a whole section of wood and foam missing.  Also missing was about an inch of the trailing edge.

Approach:
1) glue tip back in proper place.  Aligned so the leading and trailing edges are straight (up and down, fore and aft).
2) fill in the missing sections.
3) reinforce everything, probably with fibreglass and carbon.
4) re-cover the missing red section.

photo report:
14- the task- the pieces.
15- shows the foam and wood have split open.
17- used a straight edge on the bottom and a flexible straight edge on the top to compare the bulge while the glue dried.
18- shows an aluminum channel taped to the leading edge and a straight edge on the trailing edge. Note the missing foam and wood.
19- the top of the wing shows that the wood pieces fit perfectly.

Frank