Summer is slowly coming to an end and things are getting crazier for us. Moving to a new place in a week so I can finish my engineer transformation, finishing an internship, starting classes again, and going to Oshkosh all in the next month.
The plane is painted (mostly)! There are still all the exit covers, inspection plates, boot cowl, and some trim colors on the doors and rudder, but all the major assemblies are painted. Covering and painting is about all we did on the plane this summer and it was a busy task. I don’t care for painting and am glad that it is mostly finished. The rest of it will be an exercise in finding the space and equipment to do so, but it shouldn’t be insurmountable.
The plane has also been moved. After 2.5 years of half living in a garage and the other half in storage, all the airplane parts are finally together again in a hangar. It looks much cooler in a hangar and it’s even neater to see everything together. The only annoying part is that there are no hangars available nearby where we are moving to, so it’s about 50 minutes away from the house. There is an airport 10 minutes from the house, but even after a year and a half on the wait list, I haven’t risen to the top. Looking forward to getting some things actually assembled this coming year and making it look more like an airplane finally.
That’s about all the airplane stuff for the past two months. I could write a small essay on painting issues, but nothing has to do with the paint I used. A lot of operator learning/error. If you want to hear more, let me know and we can discuss a few things.
As this is posted, we have completed the move. I’m still busy being an intern for another week and a half and then I’ll join back up to start the new semester.
Oshkosh was great. We saw a lot of cool things, got to play with some avionics, and visited with friends.
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