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Moving Day

After about four years in a rented facility, I moved the fuselage to Tal’s workshop for interior painting and fitting mechanical systems.

Work has progressed on the fuselage where most of the structural items are complete.  Now a focus on installing electrical, fuel and flight controls can proceed.  First up, however, is final internal painting at Tal’s shop.  Here Eric and I pickup the trailer for moving the fuselage.

 

 

 

Using the wooden jig certainly helped rolling the fuselage up the portable ramps onto the trailer.  The roughly 10 mile drive to Tal’s shop was on back roads at max of 30mph.  It was a nail-biter for me, as 5 years of work was exposed to road hazards.  Fortunately, the trip went well and safe arrival.

 

 

 

Unloading the fuselage also proceeded without incident.  My immediate next actions are clean-out the rented shop first to get the deposit back.  Then on to plane things…