Hi all.
My name's Mike and I started hang-gliding in 1976 in a home built (not by
me) "you stall, you die" Rogallo wing. I went from that to a Dragonfly
(hang
glider-not ultralight) and from there to a powered ultralight. I now have
my
private license and own a 1953 Piper Tripacer. I have about 350 hours as a
private pilot.
I am now in the local Civil Air Patrol and have offered them my old Easy
Riser as a restoration project for the cadets' Aerospace Education
program.
The airframe was in generally good shape, but it definitely needed
recovering as well as the replacement of a few dented tubes. No major
problem getting those materials but, since I brought it to the CAP base
almost all of the ribs are damaged. I think the damage might have been
intentional as one of the old coots that is a member was all pissed off
when
I showed up with it. I have no idea why, but that doesn't really matter.
My problem now is trying to find a source of wing ribs. I've done some
googling, but haven't come up with anything. One side of this machine has
stamped aluminum ribs and the other side has foam core ribs. Does anybody
know of a source for some new ribs-either style? I don't know if this EZ
will ever fly again, but we'd like to at least get it in show condition to
use for exhibits. I guess we could just make some out of plywood for show,
but I'd rather actually make it flyable again, if at al l possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA and keep flyin'.
mike
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