{"id":2503,"date":"2022-06-13T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2022-06-13T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:33:10","slug":"scratch-built-js3-with-new-winglets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/2022\/06\/13\/scratch-built-js3-with-new-winglets\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch-built JS3 with new winglets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year was not a good year for either of my JS3. After the incident with my Chocofly JS3<\/a>, which is fortunately flying again, I also had some bad luck with my scratch-built JS3 in September. We were racing triangles at our airfield in some of the most amazing thermals I’ve ever encountered, with a thunderstorm and heavy clouds coming in. I misjudged the height of the cloud coverage as well as the strength of the thermals. My JS3 was literally sucked into a dark cloud. I instinctively gave down elevator, which caused my JS3 to reappear within seconds. Unfortunately it picked up speed massively (my GPS logger later told me I hit 265kmh) which caused the winglets to flutter and torn out of the wings. After a quick check that all control surfaces were still functional, I managed to land the plane safely. The winglets were never found, and there was quite a bit of damage to the end of the outer wings, but fortunately nothing that could not be fixed.<\/p>\n

Chocofly kindly provided me with a set of moulded JS3 winglets, which fit perfectly, saving me the task of making them myself. Fitting them and fixing the outer wings took a bit more work. Two weeks ago I then also finally managed to get the wings spray painted and today my JS3 happily took to the skies again, flying as good as ever. I love this plane.<\/p>\n

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Last year was not a good year for either of my JS3. After the incident with my Chocofly JS3, which is fortunately flying again, I also had some bad luck with my scratch-built JS3 in September. We were racing triangles at our airfield in some of the most amazing thermals I’ve ever encountered, with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-js3-scratch-built","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9zI6K-En","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}