"Shake Your Booty" takes on a whole new meaning.

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When conditions are wrong, bad things happen. If an aircraft is out of rig, it will fight itself in the air. Combine that with the speed of a Bonanza, a bit of turbulence, and you get flutter. This guy was very lucky; he made a safe landing.
 




Damage caused by in-flight flutter is rather severe.
 




The decision to disassemble and truck to our facility was a no-brainer.
 




The skins and stringers were stretched and loose from behind the baggage compartment to the tail. We obtained another fuselage section from a salvage yard and basically replaced the back half of the fuselage.

 

The lower side skin hole alignment between the old and replacement sections was good. However, the upper skins didn’t align that well. Coupled with a few ‘extra’ antenna holes, we replaced the upper forward side skins
 


As the donor section did come from a salvage yard, new skins were also fitted and installed on the belly due to rash.  A little time with the masking tape and paint gun and it looked as good as new.