{"id":2503,"date":"2009-03-16T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2015-02-02T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:35:55","slug":"00-airplane-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/00-airplane-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"00 Airplane returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"41\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 24 of 28 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/00-preparation\/\">00 - Prep\/Logistics<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The airplane arrives back from Tom&#8217;s shop today.<\/p>\n<p>Backing down the long driveway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1338-IMG_8480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1338-IMG_8480-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-03-16 1338 IMG_8480\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1338-IMG_8481.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1338-IMG_8481-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-03-16 1338 IMG_8481\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1340-IMG_8482.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1340-IMG_8482-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-03-16 1340 IMG_8482\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there was some shipping related damage (I wasn&#8217;t there when it was loaded up). Either the wing shifted forward or the fuselage shifted back (that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m betting on) and the upper fuselage skin dug through the winglet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1400-IMG_8486.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1400-IMG_8486-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-03-16 1400 IMG_8486\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1359-IMG_8484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1359-IMG_8484-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-03-16 1359 IMG_8484\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1400-IMG_8485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-03-16-1400-IMG_8485-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-03-16 1400 IMG_8485\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that it was relatively minor and since it&#8217;s a composite, the repair isn&#8217;t that difficult and there will be no loss of structural integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an animated GIF from the shop cam that shows before and after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/before-after.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/before-after-150x150.gif\" alt=\"before-after\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"41\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 24 of 28 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/00-preparation\/\">00 - Prep\/Logistics<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The airplane arrives back from Tom&#8217;s shop today. Backing down the long driveway. Unfortunately, there was some shipping related damage (I wasn&#8217;t there when it was loaded up). Either the wing shifted forward or the fuselage shifted back (that&#8217;s what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/00-airplane-returns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6],"tags":[],"series":[41],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","series-00-preparation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}