For a professional aviation website some of the comments above surprise me, there seems to be a total lack of understanding of just how much you can do in terms of repairing aircraft ( be it composite or metal).
I can only assume that this is a reflection on today's throw away culture and the fact that people no longer fix things. I notice this cultural change most in the young FO's I fly with most are driving almost new cars that are maintained professionally, at their age I was riding old motorcycles that without constant attention from myself simply would not run.