Thursday & Friday--We have a plane! And fog!

Hello everyone--thanks for checking in!

Thursday and Friday we put the final touches on the airplane to get it ready to fly.  Although the weather held us on the ground for most of the week, we were able to get a break Friday and get some flying in.  Then, we started fixing 'squawk' items--things about the airplane that aren't exactly as they should be.  Here's the photo recap:

Thursday morning, this is what our interior looked like!  It's a lot closer to a flying state than it looks.

The reason our interior was in such disarray was an antenna/cable we had to install in the belly of the airplane.  This is the Marker Beacon antenna--a piece of Instrument Flight equipment that we will probably never use, but is required by the FAA for us to be certified to fly instrument approaches.  The antenna routes under the flight control cables right back by Bulkhead "A".

Meanwhile, Tyler was putting our cargo pod up.  This is only the second cargo pod Glasair has done, so they are still working out kinks in the assembly/design.  They're doing a great job, though!

We thought we might have a fly window on Thursday, so Ben gave the 'all hands on deck' call.  I like this photo with all the feet surrounding the airplane.  Truly a team effort.

Unfortunately, we didn't get to fly Thursday (see the fog in the background!), but the plane was done enough to call it 'complete.'  Here's our Glasair team photo--from left to right:  Tyler, Ben, Eric, Tracy, Ryan, Matt, Tyson.  Missing is Bryce, who wasn't there that day.

And here's our cheesy key handoff photo!

Friday morning we got to fly her and get our taildragger checkout (now why didn't i get pictures of that?).  Then we went right back to work!  Our airplane had a slight tendency to roll left, so Glasair helped us do something about it.  We disconnected the right wing and changed the angle of incidence by about 1/32."  Here, Ryan and I are holding part of the weight of the wing while it is disconnected at the root.

Meanwhile, Tyler and these sawhorses are keeping the outboard side steady.

This is the bolt we used to change the incidence angle of the wing.  We just changes washer size & placement to move this triangular bracket around 1/32."  Then we put it all back together, flew again, and--voila!  She flies true!

Okay everyone, thanks for checking in!  This weekend we will be flying off some solo time, and hope to get some good photos of that!  See you soon!