My family was in town visiting this weekend. My little brother Adam looked over every inch of the RV-7 project, and Al was nice enough to give him a demo flight in his RV-6A. He doesn't look like he enjoyed it at all…
While they were out I snapped some photos of this F4F Wildcat that was parked in the hangar. This particular airplane has a very interesting history.
After lunch, Adam helped me get the fuselage turned around. To do this we had to roll it out onto the driveway, which generated some very surprised looks from the people in the car that happened to drive past just then.
This orientation will make it a lot easier to work on the canopy and firewall-forward stuff. Just for grins we put the canopy bubble on top of the fuselage. It's going to need a lot trimming to make it fit well.
While my dad was in town, we used his Jeep to fetch a 4×8' sheet of 3/4" plywood from the hardware store. This will be my temporary working-on-the-canopy bench, since the canopy bubble is way too big to fit on my real workbenches.
I also bought another space heater. Next weekend I'll see if I can get the temperature in the garage up to the magic 70° mark so I can do some canopy trimming. If not, I guess I'll have to postpone any further work on the canopy until summer. Stay tuned…