
By
paul330_340, shot with
Canon DIGITAL IXUS 700 at 2009-04-21
Been at this game for nearly 2.5 years and at times I have despaired at the rate of progress - airline pilot spending a lot of time away, all sorts of other jobs around the house to do etc etc.
Anyway, I have a friend who is a retired engineer in the aluminium canning business. Spent his time around Asia and is now bored - helps to rebuild steam engines in his spare time. Last week he came down to help me skin the wings. At the start of the week I had one skin clecoed on and one outboard leading edge riveted. By the end we had both skins completed and leading edges on including the stall warner and building a cradle - and some prep done on the fuel tanks. Reckon we put in about 70 man-hours.
Only real glitch was at some stage I got one of the wing-walk doublers 180 out - a LOT of the holes line up

Fortunately (?), there was a spare HS skin lying about

and we were able to fabricate a replacement.
I now have faith that I can finish this thing. Unfortunately, I am currently in Hong Kong! Oh, and I've ordered the fuselage......