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.