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Old September 2nd 17, 04:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
JS[_5_]
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Default Cobra wing wheel cradle

On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 8:18:49 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Cliff- You need a new wing wheel also. Yours looks like it was discarded by a homeless person.


Tom points out that we don't pre-flight this stuff as much as we should.
Mark, the worst one I've seen made many people cringe - or even adjust as it was in motion - at Nephi last year. Looked like its mission was to destroy an aileron.
Also saw a broken tail tow bar at Uvalde, where John Murray gave a talk on maintaining things other than the airframe.
Jim