These hours accumulated as follows: Date RR CJ Barrie Strachan, Joe Sharp, Jim Rosser 7/28/10 2.0 2.0 0 7/29 7.1 7.1 0 7/30 5.1 5.1 0 8/2 3.5 0 0 8/4 0.4 0.4 0 8/6 8.3 0 24.9
______________________________________________ 23.4 14.6 24.9 total
The days before 8/6 were spent in finishing up things here and there in the cockpit and getting the wings ready for installation. The slats and flaps were put in place on the LH wing and left there. (They have been fitted to the RH wing and removed for later installation.)
The Lexan upper cockpit cover was cut to size, fitted, drilled and clico'd in place. Then removed for later installation. The cockpit baggage area was primed and painted. The color is a yellowish green and is the color used in U. S. Naval aircraft prior to and during WW-II. I got an exact description of the color from an article in Aviation History Magazine. This refered to certain color sold to model aircraft builders called "interior Green" with a manufacturers product number. I found a bottle of this color in a St. George model shop and had Ace Hardware prepare the paint using their compuiter to do so. It was a very good match and exactly as I remember the airplanes. I had been told at the time that psychologists had chosen the color to offset the sense of claustrophobia in the tight confines of airplanes. I don't know if that is true. (Later postwar planes used a pale grey.)
On 8/6 my friends Barrie Strachan, Jim Rosser and Joe Sharp met at promptly 0800 and we watched the DVD and set about to install the wings. One early lesson learned was not to go back too close to the fusela
