EAA B-17 Hail Damage?

[kmacht]

Anyone have any info on the hail damage to EAA's B-17? Looks like control surfaces are pretty damaged. The rest of the plane looks good in the photos but its hard to tell.

Keith


http://www.9news.com/news/photo-gall...storyid=271355 (http://www.9news.com/news/photo-gallery.aspx?storyid=271355)

[martymayes]

Anyone have any info on the hail damage to EAA's B-17?

All I heard is it is grounded until parts arrive then it will be flown out.

[Chad Jensen]

Parts are on their way, and the tour will resume next weekend in Denver to fly those that were cancelled this weekend. Tough old bird...

[Eric Witherspoon]

Can't really tell from those photos if the metal or plexi was damaged - but if it was, it's not obvious. Most of the obvious damage that you're seeing is on the fabric-covered control surfaces. As such, there's some parts to be re-covered, but that's not nearly as bad as if the metal was dinged.

[Bill Greenwood]

There are holes in the fabric control surfaces and some damage to small areas of plexiglass. I don't think there is much metal damage. I expect they may be able to fix most of it soon.

Too bad the 17 could not have been put in one of the large hangars nearby, but I expect they were already full of corporate jets. Damaging hail is a little unusual there, but I think the storm came up pretty quickly and south Denver is in an area that does have storms.