I took Friday to off so I could enjoy a long weekend (having lost my Memorial Day to work travel) and lucked out with some decent temperatures to work in. Not the case this coming weekend, back to 119F (48C).…
Slats Trial Fit
I’ve missed the last two weekends away and I’m about to be sent back to Tokyo (hurrah!) this weekend but I did steal an hour in the hangar to mess with the slats. I have to say it was great…
Wings Install
Today was the last day that I could have Allen’s help before the heat goes away in October and it was very important to all of us (Scott came along too) to get the wings back on. To get to…
Vinyl Wrapping – Wings Edition Part 2
I took a couple of days off and Allen, Scott and I were able to get the pilot wing wrapped. Still no grommets from Zenith (thanks to a credit card hack) so we tried to install the grommet I had…
Vinyl Wrapping – Wings Edition (w/pics)
Next up was to wrap the first wing. we took the passenger wing off and put it on the horses. First the brackets got wrapped, red on the strut parts, white on the slat parts. I made an executive decision…
Wing Struts
On Saturday, Allen and Scott returned to help with the wing struts. First we put the wings back on the fuselage supported by the fuse bolts and the wing stands. I totally would not have thought of this, and I’m…