On 2/12/2015 12:46 PM, Justin Couch wrote:
I don't have exact details other than some extensive conversations with the guys that found it (it was on a Form 2 inspector's course, of all things...). It seems fairly significant amount of delamination, but in a series of patches, rather than one big area. I believe the glider is down with Scott Lennon currently and he or Tom could give more details.
Got a call from Tom about this just now (yay internet!). Glider is fixed up and problems not as bad as originally thought. Series of smaller delaminations of the outer skin from the foam where that goes over the spar (The 300's design is different to most in that it has foam sandwich the entire wing chord).
The biggest suspect area was due to the construction, and not a defect. Hard to pass on a second-hand description from over the phone. I understand what Tom was talking about but having troubles putting that description into text. Thus, wing frequency check would not have picked up anything, as it wasn't something that would have changed the check - so scratch that anecdote of the test not working!
Apparently on it's way back to Bathurst in the next day or two to have the annual finished up. Yay!
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