aircraft guys, look at this

[Rough Edge racing]

     

 Aircraft guys, this was shown on the HAMB hot rod site as an example of bad welding.It was part of the frame of a FLYING Foker tri wing replica...
 Do these hand built aircraft get a close inspection?

[Huzo]

That’s why they have 3 wings.
2 of them can easily come off in flight, THAT is disgraceful.....

[Tiny Tim]

Wow that is bad!! Yikes!

[rschrum]

Looks like Ray Charles welded that with his feet.

[skippy]

Looks like Ray Charles welded that with his feet.

That is seriously funny.

Skippy

[Chuck in Indiana]

Do these hand built aircraft get a close inspection?

Yes.
As an Experimental Aircraft Association technical inspector, I've seen some poor welding. Nothing like that stuff, though. It is suggested, but not required to have a tech inspector look at it.
It is *required* to have either an FAA Flight Service District Officer or Designated Aircraft Inspector go over it before licensing, though.

[TejasNW]

My oxy/acty skills may not be the greatest, but that gives chills the longer I look at it. 

[kirby1923]

Learning how to weld is a worthy task for sure, but...

Maybe the pictured welder should  have started with something more earth bound, like a cattle gate for use out on the range. (how I started).

:-)

[John A]

Learning how to weld is a worthy task for sure, but...

Maybe the pictured welder should  have started with something more earth bound, like a cattle gate for use out on the range. (how I started).

:-)

True statement. The best way to learn is by doing it on scrap . After I was able to weld so that it was structurally sound I needed to work on appearance. To that end I still like to start a welding project where the weld will not show so that when I get farther along and the welds look good as I get everything set and remember how, the welds that show look good. That’s cheating of course but in aviation “ if it looks good, it is good”.  That’s humor.
The worst I’ve seen was on a Cardinal that someone had used an oxyacetylene torch to remove a wing rib to fit a wing leveler for an ultra light. A city administrator had bought this aircraft without a pre buy inspection and that was just one of the many unairworthy  things I found on it.

[wavedog]

Those welds look almost like they were done by a harbor freight 120V ac wire feed machine, although there is not enough spatter. Scary stuff.