Step bottom boards for earlier takeoffs and soft touchdowns

[Larsb]

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From mayhem to amen - step bottom board build

I destroyed a board when i tried to cure it with too high temperature in the oven. The foam sunk - a lot. Just for fun i’ll make a stepped board out of it. Started with scalping the board to get rid of the worst parts. I used a multi-cutter to cut the shell, then peeled off the composite and used a hotwire cutter to cut the damaged foam away [image] Then i added a tail of xps250 foam reinforced with some layer of carbon, sanded the bottom flat and glued a 5mm 80kg/m3 pvc foam to the bottom …