The A-26 saga, part 1

It all began a couple months ago in June when Steve brought his A-26 to the field for a flight. It went something like this:



The damage actually wasn't all that bad. In fact, Steve's pretty sure he did more damage to the airplane getting it out of the tree than he did landing it in the tree. The right horizontal stabilizer was in pretty bad shape, and the left wing from the nacelle to the tip was hanging on by the covering. That was the end of the A-26 for Steve, so I bought it to see if I could bring it back to life. Some glue, balsa, and a couple patches of covering later I was ready to fly. Last week I gave it a shot. The first problem was that I messed up balancing the props and thought that was the end of the day's flight. Fortunately, John had a pair of 10x6 props on him that he let me borrow. With good props mounted, I started the engines and took to the runway:



The problem was with the control arm for the nose gear. It ended up being weak and under the stress of a take-off roll it bent and the nose gear turned 90 degrees, halting the roll pretty fast. I picked up another pair of APC props and a new nose gear control arm and now I'm ready to rock. We'll see what happens tomorrow, so stay tuned.

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Vic successfully landed his green monster twice on Sunday, and his landings weren't half bad!. Here's one of them: