I have just got home…. From my brother’s birthday party, and from building today. Firstly, I drove to Richard’s… And we worked on a couple of things – firstly the firewall. That was a real real pain. The edges were sharp, and none of the rivets were going in straight. I lost count of the number of Rivets that we needed to drill out… It was bad. Eventually we got it basically done…
Then after lunch we started assembling the back of the fuselage. This is basically a big jigsaw puzzle, with pieces that are often tight fits… and they need to be fitted in the right order or things will not work. If you put things in the wrong order then things are a pain since you need to uninstall stuff.
We did not actually install any rivets into the fuselage… Just connecting the parts together. During the week richard will need to spend some time straightening things at the back end. Just minor things to improve the look of the plane. We then did some work on the floor… And put in about 40 rivets there. They all went in well. And very quickly. I guess next weekend we will get a lot of work done on assembling things.
Then I went to Castle Towers to pick up a copy of the new Harry Potter book, and a present for my brother. I eventually got a copy of a book on the history of the Black Box Fligt Recorder. Looks like a really interesting book. Then I drove to my brothers place for his party.
The party was good… Meeting people I have not seen probably since the party last year. Duncan also mentioned that he had finished reading the Harry Potter book at 3:30PM… Not bad for a book released at 9:01am today.