Fairchild Rrestoration    |     home New Fabric Covers The Flight controls are finished and ready to install. This is the pictures of why we recovered the aircraft. The paint could be pulled off the fabric Elevators are completely rebuilt and recovered cleaned, repaired and ready to cover The fuselage was the biggest thing to recover, I did the blanket method by   Applying the glue to the structure, and after drying the fabric can be draped over the fuselage. Glue, Cut, Shrink as you go. After the fabric is applied, the reinforcement tapes get glued on First primer filler applied The wings get the same treatment, bottom skin is on Every thing gets reinforced by an extra thickness of fabric Inspection rings get glued on. Fuel tanks are cleaned and installed with new lines and hardware Wings get installed and stitched Most of the recovering is complete, except the final sanding and trim. More pictures as he stuff happens. next big thing is mounting the flight controls and rigging. The red trim is getting done a little at a time