Cessna Skylane 182 crash and repair

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Well as you may have seen on my flight log, my new kit built Cessna crashed on the second outing. Rx brown out, short found on the volt spy !

So with a big pile of broken wood in front of me I could "just about" see that with a lot of work I could rebuild it!

Before and after, my 82 inch wingspan full kit of the Skylane 182 made by Topflite USA

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Start on the Wing !
I had one small part of the 82" wing that was usable, see below.
I found on the Topflite website the PDF of the die cut wooden parts, these are not shown on the plans thus a great help :D
I found that zooming 575% they printed off exact size!
Just had to stick the plan of the rib onto the wood and cut it out!
You can see the hole punches I made for the ribs, the are from K&S tube stock, note, sharpen the inside edge to stop the wood splitting!

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After a lot of cutting and trying to remove the paper plan, the ribs were built up on the wing plan (for the second time around)
Good news, rib No6 was used 3 times on each wing half so there were cut on one go.

Well one side was done!

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The other wing section did look Ok'ish till I removed the 1/16 sheeting.
All but two of the front section of ribs were broken.
I printed the planes and cut out the front section only and there were fitted along side anything that was left of the broken rib for added strength.

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The center section was also too bad to use, After more cutting and more glue, the new one was ready :D

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The three section of the wing were glued together with the correct angle set into both wings.

It is a large wing once it is all together! the extra wires are for the nav lights.
As you can see, the flaps survived the crash!

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The wing is fully sheeted in 1/16 wood, lots of glue and pins are needed and three hands!

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Before fitting the top sheeting one has to make sure the cables, servos are Ok and clear of problems and all is well before the glue sets :D:D