Whilst I procrastinate about doing anything else, here is some more on yesterday’s moving… One of the more interesting exercises was moving the plane. We had a reasonably large van to do this, and it only just fitted, and only if the doors to the truck were open. But getting the fuselarge in there was a challenge… It was sort of like an upside down bathtub being held up with a couple of saw horses. This was fine, but we did need to get this into the truck. And there came the challenge.

This involved first carrying it as far as possible from the end. Then it involved me getting under the fuse and slowly pushing it forward whilst people were pushing the tail end. And then putting more saw horses under the edges. And these then I needed to get out… Well, it was better if I did not stay in there for the journey… This involved crawling out on my tummy to get out – it was that tight a fit. Really tight. Really really tight but I got out, and lots of photos were taken…

It almost became a neighbourhood event, with a few people coming and looking to see what we were doing… But I saw one couple drive down the driveway – the husband, well, you could see him thinking ‘what is going on here’? And the wife… Well, as they drove by you could just see her head turn wondering what was in the truck, not believing her eyes; in open mouthed amazement. I guess that really is the best way to describe it. The two wings were also in the same van.

It was interesting following the van to the new place, going about 20KM/H, knowing that there was too many weekens work in there for me to acknowledge… At the other end it was my turn to get back into the truck and help lift the fuselage out from underneith. And of course the truck was too low for me to be able to stand up, so I basically got on my knees and was holding it above whilst walking on my knees… Getting it down the steep driveway was not as hard as it could have been – it in fact reminded me of a cannoe team carrying their cannoe. I think we had eight people carrying it, with Richard and Myself underneight lifting the heavy part unable to see anything else… Trusting that we would not hit anything.

There is more, but that is enough for right now…