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92125
Come full circle or are going round in circles?
There is nothing...nothing difficult about repairing a glassfibre aircraft. It is cloth and resin. Repairing it so the repair is invisible...no more technically difficult but requires craftsmanship, just like with any hands-on job.
Have you ever worked on a GRP glider?
I mentioned before that I’ve watched a few guys repair a rather large hole in an ASW19 wing (it hit a fence post on landing) overnight, on the grid for the next day’s race at 7am the next morning. They knew what they were doing. Why would you let anyone else other than someone who knows what they are doing repair an aircraft anyway? There is NO shortage of excellent GRP repair facilities in the UK.
Alas Syerston is not one of them.
I agree with all of this. The only problem is that market forces being what they are there isn't much slack to suddenly look after an additional 60 (or whatever the number is) gliders, and that would be the case whatever type they are.
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I also think they would be in the same pickle if they had had K13s or any other glider type including T21 & T31.