Repairs

I’ve been doing some repair work. On the Fantom Mini I built up the damaged fin with wood filler. As for the crunched launch lug I cut it off at an angle. Some people do that deliberately; supposedly it reduces drag. Then I touched up the black paint. The launch lug fillets look a little funky but I haven’t tried to do anything about them. On the Ventris I sanded the old glue off the popped fin and reglued it, with epoxy this time. (Now there are two fins done with epoxy.)  New fillets are epoxy with milled fiber.These pictures are from a couple weeks ago; I was hoping for a repainted Ventris picture before posting them. Now I doubt if repainting will happen before Spring. Painted or not, the Ventris might have flown on Saturday if I hadn’t been LCO and/or if the weather had been better. I like the Ventris and one failed flight this season wasn’t enough.