The Mission:

I am building an airplane. I really can't tell you how weird it sounds to me to hear those words in my head as I type. I am keeping this blog as an adjunct to my written log, which is required to comply with FAA requirements for Experimental Aircraft construction. My son Doug is my partner in this project. There are two goals: to build the best, safest, and yes, COOLEST, airplane we can, and to allow Doug to acquire some truly awesome experiences, not to mention building skills. Thanks for viewing.



How to use this blog

The most current post is displayed on this opening page. To access the older posts, click on the "Blog Archive" on the right hand side. The drop down menu is arranged by the month and lists the posts, by title and by date posted, in reverse chronological order.

I will arrange the hypertext links to other websites I find interesting better some day, but they are at the bottom.

If you navigate to my first post, there is a link to my luthiery pages. I miss working with wood. Aluminum is nice, but it's boring. Give me a highly figured maple any day!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Almost...

Doug had homework, and I couldn't find anybody else to help today, so the wings are still not on.  Close, but not on.

Meanwhile I wired the pitot and installed, and (prior to doing homework) Doug bolted on the Vetterman exhaust.

Heated pitot wiring

Protected with blue tape from bugs, spiders, etc

Doug added the exhaust

You can just see daylight through the gap that separates us from having wings on

That close!
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