Yesterday I had a call from FedEx… Yes, yesterday was a sunday. They were ringing to let me know that a parcel was in the country, and were wanting to know how I was going to pay the shipping charges. Eh? The same way as the transport charges. When the person looked up the account, for some reason the account showed as not being active. This is the same account that I had just used to bring the stuff into the country. I find this increddible. Today, assuming that FedEx are open in other states I will ring them and sort out what is going on.

For the last couple of days I have been really busy working on the plane… I am home now and I was exhausted when I got home, and fell asleep as soon as my head hit my pillow… But the work on the plane was good. We got the holes drilled on the firewall to attach it to the rest of the plane. This took a lot of work… Most of the work was in the preparation getting the longerons bent into the correct shape. They are the pieces of metal that stretch from one end of the plane to the other… And required a lot of work to get them right. Take them out, bend, stretch, hit, reinstall, examine, compare. repeat many times. And each cycle would take about 10 minutes.

We also worked on control rods. Drilling the ends into them. We needed to mark holes around the circumference in order to drill – and Richard came up with a great idea he read somewhere… Mark the holes on a piece of masking tape first, getting them even and then put it on the pole. Worked really really well…

Anyway I need to get going… Breakfast is calling me!