I believe there used to be a program where you sent your L13 to the
factory and got it back with zero timed wings.

No longer available as the manufacturer is concentrating on 40 year
old designs...

This is a 1956 design - pre Finite element analysis and CAD and all
those other things.
It was designed to build using the abundant cheap, skilled labour
available in the Soviet Union. I assume the factory stopped the rebuilds
because of simple economics...
You have to question whether it will be economically viable to keep
this fleet flying.

And - yes I have many hours of "unusual attitudes" in an L13, and it was
a lot of fun, and a good intermediate trainer. Wayne and I once did 11
consecutive loops at the end of a little cross country. But there's the
trouble, I doubt our club L13 had many flights that did not include at
least one steep turn, or chandelle, or whatever. That makes them all
aerobatic time - so the glider is scrap, under the current AD...
I would love there to be an economical way to return them to service,
but am not optimistic.

Bruce

On 2011/02/24 3:27 AM, wrote:
Has this happened in the USA?

How much $$ for a "factory overhaul"? What is the turn around time?

Is the "factory" doing overhauls?



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Gliders with a "known" history can be returned to service with factory
overhauls (as they do in the Czech republic) and with complete
records...

--
Bruce Greeff
T59D #1771 & Std Cirrus #57