October 24, 2004

Today, I went to the hangar to inventory the finish kit, and try to get something else done on the plane where I could. There were a few things on back order, like the engine mount hardware, but otherwise everything looked OK.

Takes a while to go through all this stuff. I opened up all the hardware bags and sorted them into the relevant fastener trays and rivet drawers. Nice to restock all this stuff again!

I went to mount the engine mount, but then realised that the hardware bag was back ordered. So, it’ll just have to stay here for now!

Since I couldn’t do that, I moved on to mount the tyres. The first one took a bit of messing about, but once I’d got the knack of it, the other one was easy. Here I am actually building an aeroplane!

Intense concentration on the big black doughnut!

There we are mounted and er balanced… Hmmm. No balancing here. Just line the red dot up with the valve and call it good.

Here’s a gratuitous shot of the cowling…