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Permalink Reply by Jerry Griego on Monday

Nice plane. Can you explain how you damaged your plane and explain the repairs.

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Permalink Reply by Valerie Westedt yesterday

Jerry, 

 

We had an engine failure with our corvair engiine  and had to put it into a cow pasture.  Unfortunately, on landing, we dropped the front wheel into a hog hole and put it up on its nose.  I am attaching a couple of pics showing the damage.   Basically The right wing had tip and leading edge  damage and the front end had damage from the nose on back to the firewall..  That's why the new engine, even though the engine was not damaged.  We ended up with some dents in the left wing leading edge during transport and decide to replace the leading edge rather than leave the dents.  Here is a list of repairs.

1.New wing leading edges and wing tips (Zenith redesigned their wing tips and if we wanted them to match, we had to replace both

2. New front gear

3. New fire wall 

4. New front floor pan 

Because of the new engine

1 New engine mount

2  New cowling

Painted all involve parts.

We passed our FAA inspection with flying colors.. Not one gig

 

See pics of accident

 

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• B2.JPG, 678 KB
• B6A.JPG, 786 KB
• B3.JPG, 2.8 MB

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