It's hard to watch a plane come down without the wings, wings fluttering
down gently and fuse plunging.
A friend lost a Sig Sundancer 50 today. Failure could have been the lower
wing main spar(wing joiner) or hardware holding upper wing to struts. The
owner of the plane wasn't flying it. There were 4 of us there to see it
and
three of us have the same plane. How to prevent this from happening to
ours? I may just have to put a ply joiner in my wing and find a different
way to attach the upper wing. It's a pretty plane and I hate to cut into
it but it's not as pretty when in crashes so I guess I'll take
preventative
measures.
The plane survived really well. It needs a new firewall and cowl and
re-join the lower wing or a new wing., uh, and new prop, and spinner.
It was cutting some pretty stressful di-dohs (sp?) before it failed.
I don't guess anyone has experience with this plane (small group nowadays)
but I bet you've had a wing come off before.
mk
