I'm going to be trailering my RV8 to the paint shop and then to the airport, and would appreciate any tips or hints. I've got a 7 ft (2.2m) wide, 16 ft (5m) long totally flat trailer with a very small lip around the edges. I need to bring everything of course, and prefer to make one trip since the paint shop is quite far from my house (about 350 miles/560 km of highway)
I've built wooden protection around the ends of the wings, and I've bought every known protection method for the rest of the parts - shipping blankets, bubble wrap, pallet wrap plastic, and styrofoam boards for example.
I've also ordered about a dozen or so long tiedown straps.
Any tips would be most welcome, since I obviously want everything to arrive safely. My wife thinks I'm crazy for doing it myself, and tells me I should have paid the 4000 USD that the shippers wanted - but I guess if I was a rational thinker I would not be building an airplane!
I've built wooden protection around the ends of the wings, and I've bought every known protection method for the rest of the parts - shipping blankets, bubble wrap, pallet wrap plastic, and styrofoam boards for example.
I've also ordered about a dozen or so long tiedown straps.
Any tips would be most welcome, since I obviously want everything to arrive safely. My wife thinks I'm crazy for doing it myself, and tells me I should have paid the 4000 USD that the shippers wanted - but I guess if I was a rational thinker I would not be building an airplane!