Last week three builders from California flew in to work on Tsunami. Greg Read a composites specialist, who has worked on several sport class racers, his wife Chiwami Read, who flew Piglet in the sport class last year and Jason Nelson a fabricator at NASA's Armstrong flight research center.
Their goal was to give the project a much needed boost in productivity. Since it is just myself working on the plane most of the year we don't get to see large changes. But last week we put in seven 12 hour days and it certainly paid off. We skinned the vertical, built and attached the wing rib to stringer gussets, cut the spar notches in the inboard wing ribs, formed all the fuselage side formers and built all the form blocks for the top formers of the fuselage.
Greg and Jason have much more fabrication experience than I do and it was great to learn from their wealth of knowledge.
Anyway here are a few pictures from the week.
Their goal was to give the project a much needed boost in productivity. Since it is just myself working on the plane most of the year we don't get to see large changes. But last week we put in seven 12 hour days and it certainly paid off. We skinned the vertical, built and attached the wing rib to stringer gussets, cut the spar notches in the inboard wing ribs, formed all the fuselage side formers and built all the form blocks for the top formers of the fuselage.
Greg and Jason have much more fabrication experience than I do and it was great to learn from their wealth of knowledge.
Anyway here are a few pictures from the week.
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