26-12-2011, 08:35 PM
(26-12-2011, 09:58 AM)Claudius Wrote: Nice work Jason - looks like a heck of a rebuild effort!
Thanks Claudio,
It was a bit of an Eppic repair, but I did have a few missions in between, like building, then repairing, the little Zeke after it's structural failure and starting some work on the Yokosuka float plan. Not to mention the repairs generated from two separate Mid-airs with the little edge 540 now know as "the yellow Peril".
I'm glad I did rebuild the Yak. I got another Yak 55M airframe the same size from HK AUS warehouse and would probably have just shifted all the gear over to that one but the paint work on the cowl was all wrong. I'm still arguing the point with HK via Paypal. It's taking some time to resolve and I wanted to have one of the two Yaks in the air before Christmas, I only just made it
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