I know how you feel. My plans-built bird was begun with the tail feathers and the ribs in 1990. 20 years later it was finally completed and started flying regularly. Any thoughts of performing stressful maneuvers are tempered by the realization that many of those epoxy joints are 27 years old! So far, after eight years of flying, the only failures have been in the areas which hold the wing tanks. The weight of the tanks wiggling around and expanding/contracting eventually broke a few members loose and they had to be re-glued. Needless to say I fly conservatively. |