Historic flight News

Sedbergh WB922 was back in service on Friday for the Historic Flight, having been aero-towed back from Biscester on 6th July.

The aircraft looks fantastic!

A really big thanks to those that have helped get it flying again!

More soon!

With a lot of effort by Adam Clarke and Geoff Beard – our Sedbergh is nearly

finished!

Things are progressing well. With input from Geofff, Vicky and myself the fuselage is almost completely covered in fabric and has its first coat of dope.

Dave masked up the remaining wing to do the roundels top and bottom. This is where you get some idea of the hours involved, with extensive masking operations required to achieve the 3 colours both roundels took the best part of a days work to complete ! Both wings, however, now complete.

Another successful 2 days this week which has seen the culmination of the fuselage prep. The broken bits discovered have been patched, glued and sanded, finally the cockpit is now ready for paint – this took most of day one to finish. Geoff has worked tirelessly stripping paint from the tail area and the wing mounts.

All the internal steelwork ( control rods etc ) is now at the sandblasters getting prepped for powder coating, Geoff and I have taken the remaining woodwork and aluminium home for stripping prior to paint.

Once the fuselage was covered in thinned adhesive

we were able to start attaching fabric and have now achieved both sides from the cockpit back to the fin.

we are hoping that by spending 2 days again next week we should see the covering finished then it will be over to Dave for spraying. As they say 90% finished 90% to go !

After being somewhat stalled, progress on the Sedbergh is once again gathering pace. Many hands definitely make light work and the fuselage exterior is now sanded with the rear section coated in thinned adhesive ready to take the first of the fabric.

Geoff, Vicky and I took it in turns to be buried in the cockpit stripping paint, we tried sanding initially but it took the best part of a day to remove a couple of paint layers from one cockpit wall and we need to get back to bare wood. We then progressed on to an Al Stacey supplied paint stripper which is properly nasty stuff but has speeded up the process to about 6″ square cleared every 30 mins !

Unfortunately progress to the front fuselage was hampered as we discovered damage to the wheel box, nose and internal cockpit wall ( caused by squashing the QRF between the pilot and the cockpit). All this damage is being repaired and we are going to have the cockpit sides covered with a layer of glass fibre to hopefully prevent future damage.

I did take a quick snap of one of the wings ( minus aileron ) as it came out of the spray booth to show some idea of things to come !