Think they filed?
Nope, I never saw them deburr a single edge or hole.
Tom, I agree. It would have been much safer and probably easier too.Seems to me, they did it the hard / dangerous way
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Bending the rear spar back so the wooden staves would line up would give me the willys. Even for a short ferry flight ...
So, the question would be, what aircraft would be long enough to contain a wing and haul it into an 800 foot clearway..... prolly was unavailable. You might be able to get a half wing into a Norseman....
I wonder if the son just ran a tank out of fuel....
This is a float question in general, will planes takeoff in water faster than land?
What WAS the cause of engine failure? They repair the wing but not the engine, was it fuel exhaustion?