Four hours in the shop today doing the final glassing to the inside of both fuselage sides. 12 plies of BID cloth were cut at 45 deg to fit over the areas outlined by stringers LWX & LWY and the lower longerons. Dacron was cut as well as wax paper to be used to cover …
The temperature in the morning was around -13 degrees C and so we used an electric heater to warm up the engine. To keep it exciting we switched seats today so the PIC was in the back ! We flew over a frozen Rice Lake and then off to Cobourg where we could see a …
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