This is the first week-end since MYRO was permitted that I’ve not flown. I was going to yesterday (Saturday) and nearly did but I thought better of it. The weather forecast was for clear, bright conditions with almost no wind followed by rain today and my plan was to get an hour or so in and then try fitting MYRO’s covers. But it was obvious when I set out that there was going to be some rain after all, so I abandoned the idea of flying altogether and decided just to concentrate on the covers.<\/p>\n
This turned out not to be a bad thing because of the time it took me to get the covers on. In the event, the wing covers fitted pretty well and when I finish the fuselage section (which I had to get a measurement for), that will fit well too. The big problem was the tail horizontal stabiliser cover which I’d got completely wrong, and this is an important one. I’m finding that rain is entering the cover when MYRO is parked with the elevator secured in the ‘down’ position and cannot then escape until the elevator is raised to the ‘up’ position. This allows the water to exit the same way that it entered but while it is inside the cover, although it can’t do any real harm, it encourages the growth of green algae which would eventually become very unsightly.<\/p>\n
So I brought the tail cover back home yesterday and today (Sunday) I quickly finished off the fuselage section and have spent the whole of the rest of the day and part of the evening modifying the tail cover. It has taken me hours to do and now I understand why bought fitted covers cost as much as they do. Anyway, I’ve finished the job and I’m very pleased with the result – I just hope it now fits \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n
The covers are secured by bungee cords with plastic hooks on and I forgot that I’d only ordered a few hooks to make sure they would work OK. They do and I’ve now got more on order. If they arrive tomorrow as I hope, my plan will be to take some time out, nip down to the field and try the redesigned tail cover out because naturally we’ve now got a lot more rain forecast this week. I hope everything goes to plan because then I won’t mind so much if I know that MYRO is outside in it but snug under its new fitted outdoor covers \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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