Finally! We’re ready to take the wings off the Cub and get them away for survey and repair. Rather than fabricate a wing stand we managed to borrow one from a friend who has just assembled his RV8 project – amazingly they turned out to be a perfect fit for the Cub wings:
The good thing about being in the big hangar is all the kit that we can borrow to help during the process:
The result…
It only took about 30 minutes, with a little help from a small team we put together:
The cradle has wheels so it was easy to wheel the wings out of the way:
They will wait patiently until the transport turns up. They are off to a specialist vintage and classic engineering company for assessment:
I’m not looking forward to the bill..!