Fuselage

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My fuselage arrived today, and I was woefully under-prepared. I had seen in the forums that the LTL carriers cannot unload the large crates such as this. Despite knowing that, I had been preoccupied with other things and had done nothing in terms of arranging equipment or friends to help. When the day came, and ABF asked if I could unload… I had to scramble. Luckily, the county has a Bobcat with a forklift attachment at the airport and was able to help me out. I was also luck that Mike and Steve were there to help me.

Here is the initial offload.   

Its a huge crate!IMG_7705.JPG

Proud father!IMG_7704.JPG

First glimpse inside the crate. IMG_7678.JPG

I was not initially planning to unpack or even open the crate today, but Steve and Mike were just as eager as I was, and with the helping hands available there was no reason not to!IMG_7679.JPG IMG_7680.JPG

By the end of the day we had it neatly tucked back in the rear of the hangar where I was able to climb in and make airplane noises!IMG_7702.JPG

Hangar prepped for fuselage 

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My quick build fuselage will be arriving this coming Friday. The way my hangar is currently organized, I won’t have any room for it, so I needed to rethink the organization. As an engineer, I’m a big fan of engineer’s paper. I took some measurements of all the basic items in the hangar at the end of last session. And then I printed out a scaled copy of my hangar-mate’s Piper Cherokee. I used scale cutouts to determine the best arrangement in the hangar.

Here is the current arrangement.

And here is the arrangement I planned.

Moving everything wasn’t as painful as I expected. The smooth even concrete floor makes everything a breeze. After my previous hangar, I’m constantly delighted by the perfection that is concrete. The only difference in my new layout and the one above is the position of my fire cabinet.

In the first few photos you can see the back of the hangar where the work benches and shelves used to be. I’ve cleared this area out, and this will be the fuselage’s new home.  

Here’s where the fire cabinet resides. Not ideal… but I’ll keep thinking on it.     

The new home for the workbenches and shelves.   

After all of this, I finished countersinking the flap braces, cleaned up, and called it a day.

QB Fuselage Shipped!

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My quick build fuselage has arrived at Van’s two months early! Crating is complete and ABF has picked that bad boy up. It will be here next Friday! Now I really need to finish up these wings!!!!

Also, where the heck am I going to put this thing???