Eric

you’re correct as ever. I guess the original canopy was a victim of one of the “arrivals” which resulted in repairs.

Dave

One thing which has changed is that the little fairing “ears” on the canopy in the first picture seem to have disappeared. I must work out what’s happened there, and whether they need to be rebuilt.

Dave

Phil

PM me your email address and I’ll send a couple of photos of BZL as she is now.

Dave

Phil

thanks for the reply, and especially the photo. The colour scheme obviously hasn’t changed, which was one point I was interested in! I’ve got some “Slingsby, Kirbymoorside” transfers so can slap then on. One of the guys here reckons he has a tracing of a tobacco leaf or some kind of Wills logo that was on the glider somewhere, so she could end up looking pretty original.

From the logbook the glider got beaten-up a bit more at Feshie – one or two major repairs had to be done in the past but we’ve done a lot of internal exploration of the fuselage and wings by webcam and most of it looks like new. She had new fabric in the 1980’s and that’s good as new too. She was stored, rigged, in the roof of the new, totally dry Feshie hangar for 10 years, which is as good as it gets for a wooden glider.

So hopefully in a few weeks, we’ll get some (3rd party) insurance and fly her!

cheers
Dave