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Jim's Web Site
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Date: 6-6-2012
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Number of Hours: 1.70
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Brief Description: Reinforced trim tab mini-spars and continued moldi
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Before the usual airplane stuff, I want to remember the day. While I was born seven years after D-Day, occuring 68 years ago today, my thoughts today are with the surviving men and their families, and the families of those who died, however extended they may be by now, of those young men who participated in the invasion of France on this day. Bravery can be defined as facing danger in the face of fear, not facing danger without fear. By whatever measure or definition, the bravery of those very young men who jumped from airplanes, rode in on gliders, walked from the front of landing craft into the storm of bullets and explosions, and scaled the cliffs on precarious ladders, is more than I can imagine as I sit here comfortably in the safe country that they ensured. I'll never forget the legacy of this day, nor the cost to our country and the individuals who served.
This afternoon I reinforced the trim tab mini-spars with 1 bid glass and extracted the plaster of Paris elevator weight mold. The plaster cured well overnight, and was pretty easy to extract from the elevator skins. Getting the cured plaster from the plastic bag was more challenging, because of folds in the bag. But the result was pretty good. I cut the result on the band saw, removing a lot of the excess plaster. When the plaster cures some more, I'll fill the minor voids, probably with micro, and sand the mold to the final shape.
My longer term plan is to sand cast lead weights in the shape of the plaster molds. Simple in concept, but I've never done this before. But hey, how hard can it be? Just another part of the adventure.
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