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We had a mixed bag of weather over the past week or so – more rain, over several days in fact, but some good days thrown in too. The highlight was spending an afternoon taking Wim’s son and his children for local pleasure flights. In the past I’ve used the X-Air, which meant that we couldn’t go very far afield, but this time in the Savannah, we were able to do a route as far as around Montignac and back.<\/p>\n

They all enjoyed the experience and whereas the others only had a take off and landing back at Galinat, the last passenger, one of Wim’s grandsons who’d never flown before, got a special treat. <\/p>\n

Because I’d left the Savannah at Galinat the night before, my car was with me and Wim was to drive it back to Malbec, which was to be the last landing of the day. But because if we had flown direct, we’d have got there ages before him, I decided to drop into Condat first before heading back to Malbec. My passenger was delighted.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when they left they took the sunshine with them and it only returned today, too late to take up another eager young member of Wim’s family with aspirations of becoming a pilot who wanted to fly yesterday. But for me today was the start of getting the X-Air ready to advertise and sell.<\/p>\n

When I cleaned it the other day, I found that the special ‘vernis’ that the previous owners had applied to the fabric was massively flaking off the yellow upper surfaces, the wings especially. If I leave it, although the fabric itself is in good condition, I’m sure that the selling price of the aircraft will be drastically reduced, so I need to do something to improve its appearance.<\/p>\n

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The flaking is almost certainly due to the effect of UV light and the upside is that the coating has suffered rather than the fabric itself, but that still leaves me with the cosmetic problem. Today I took a stiff brush to the surfaces affected and something like 80% or so of the yellow coating came off leaving a small residue, the edges of which are not that pronounced. The solution will therefore be to clean as much more off as I can with suitable thinners and then apply a new coating.<\/p>\n

This should restore a good finish, possibly as good as when I bought the X-Air nearly six years ago. I know what the material was that was used so now I’ve just got to see if I can source some more, mainly the yellow but a small quantity of the blue as well to touch in a few areas where there has been some wear.<\/p>\n

I’m not expecting to sell the X-Air for a huge amount so I hope that when I’ve finished, there will be someone whose eye it will catch, just as it did mine.<\/p>\n

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