July 23, 2006

It’s been a long time since I updated the site, mainly because not much has happened! Two weekends ago, we had friends over form Chicago for the weekend, and the weekend after that it was too hot and humid to be working in the hangar.

So, we finally got to the hangar again to get on with wingtips, and then two strangers showed up from Germany! Andreas and Wolfgang were here on a business trip, and dropped by to see if anybody was around. It turns out that Andreas had been checking my progress on the web in Germany, and is planning on building an RV-7, so I was happy to answer any questions. We ended up spending the whole day hangar flying and checking out the plane, tools and all kinds of other things. It was quite a lot of fun!

I’ve missed having Cameron and Mike around to chat with. Clayton has been doing a great job of filling in for them though!

Andreas and Wolfgang managed to wangle some of their trip to include a business visit to Green Bay, WI. Now isn’t that convenient?! A short drive to Oshkosh! I gave him a BIG shopping list of things to buy! We’ll probably meet up there for some beers one evening.

Clayton did actually do more work on the plane this weekend than I did! He made some reinforcement strips for the right wing tip, and started match drilling them to the tip and drilling them for the nutplates. We forgot to take pictures too, but it’s all the same as the above stuff.

I ordered some foam to reinforce the wingtips, as they’re a bit flimsy. We’ll glass it in, and then attach the tips to the plane so the epoxy sets up in the correct position.

Oshkosh here we come! Really looking forward to it. Seeing friends old and new will be nice.