Radical Radjet Repair

...with a classy nosejob

Yesterday the Radjet took a bit of a tumble when I mistook it's orientation whilst diving down for a low flyover. The damage wasn't anything I hadn't repaired before, however a package awaiting my arrival at home afforded the opportunity of turning routine maintenance (crash repairs) into a radical transformation.

The mystic makeover took the form of a custom nose-job, compliments of a replacement nosecone for that lost during it's second coming-together with Mother Earth's formidable presence. This little piece of magic is the replacement nose cone for a Stinger 64 and, despite this being a foam plane, the nosecone is actually moulded plastic. And it fits onto the Radjet with little effort, especially if you take the route of least resistance and sticky-tape in on like I did.

The result is actually pretty good; it doesn't look quite as pretty as the original, in fact the plastic proboscis does make it look a little creepy, however it's a big improvement on the rather bluffly trimmed nose-job I had effected with a Stanley knife...