[Canberrauav] Sunday Recap Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com Sun Oct 20 11:57:50 UTC 2013 Hi everyone, A review of our flights at Geoff's place today: Flight 1 - Successful. A slightly hard landing bent the landing gear (quick fix). The plane's performance was not optimal during auto mode. Added in more rudder mixing for better turns Flight 2 - Parachute got caught in bottle on the way down and did not fully deploy. Bottle was severely damaged, but the rest of the mechanism was OK. Mechanism was fixed to prevent catching in the future. Flight 3 - Bottle deployment was successful. Beaver had a very rough landing, sustaining moderate damage. Propeller destroyed, several wing spars heavily damaged, cracks in fuselage and heavy damage to undercarriage. We're not sure at this stage as to how long repairs (if repairable) will take to the Beaver. Could a good couple of weeks. Jack should have a better idea in the next couple of days. Thanks Stephen
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