Got around to repairing the RHS undercarriage on the Super Chipmunk today.
It turned out that the anchor block in the RHS wing has come unglued (I wondered what was rattling around inside the wing when I first got it from my friendly little frog Kermit!!).
Sounds like there may also something rattling around in the LHS wing as well.
Given the end of the wheel strut had no anchor block it only took a very light bump to fold the wheel back and cause the nose over on landing, & I thought I was going well on the landing approach & wondered why a relatively light landing caused the failure . Now I know.
Needed to cut a hole through the Balsa wing covering to access the inside and glue the anchor block back in place.
I’ve fitted a temporary patch to the wing until I see if it works OK, if not then I’ll remove the balsa cover sheet completely from around the undercarriage & rebuild the landing gear mounting inside both wings then recover it all.
Till then I think it should be OK to test fly again on Friday (or whenever we next go).
Other than the landing gear issue she flew very nicely (once I dialled the throws back a bit).