All targets achieved today

I had to scoot around before I left for Ken’s this morning trying to remember everything I needed to take with me. My aims for today were to get MYRO’s left wing full assembled ready for fitting back on again and remove the rear fuselage cover so I can do the little bit of stitching that’s needed on it. In the event, I managed to get everything done but it was a long, tiring day and I seemed to do everything twice because of the little cock-ups and setbacks that kept happening. It took me the best part of four hours to get the wing assembled and its cover on which I think was even worse than the first time I did it down at Linton. Admittedly that time I hadn’t completely disassembled the wing whereas this time I had to do the whole thing from scratch. But I did it and it ended up looking just as it did before the accident which was the most I could hope for really. I’ll save any pic-taking until both wings go back on again 😉

It was quite late in the afternoon when I’d finished and I debated with myself whether I ought to tackle the rear fuselage cover or leave it until tomorrow. In the event I decided to crack on and here are some pics of MYRO when I’d finished taking the cover off.

In the pics you can see just a little of how filthy it was up in the the back of MYRO. Before it got dark I spread the cover out at home and gave it a scrub with warm detergent using a brush and it was incredible how much muck came off. Hopefully I’ll now be able to do the stitching tomorrow before I return to Ken’s. The weather forecast is for a pretty calm next couple of days and I hope its right because I’ve had to leave MYRO’s wings and ailerons leaning up against a wall outside. If I get the stitching done early enough, I might be able to get the second tank fitted tomorrow and the rear cover back on again and if I did, I’d then be ready to re-fit MYRO’s wings. If I did, how great would that be 😀

Just to finish off, a couple of pics showing what point was reached after last week-end’s work as I didn’t have my camera at the time.