Bit of a lull

Was talking to P & M yesterday and I’m now expecting the rivets and bolts for the doors to arrive at any time. I’ve spent the last couple of days mulling things over and thinking about the next stages of the project and I’ve taken the opportunity to take a look at something that’s been slightly troubling me.

On the face of it, it appears to be a relatively minor thing – when the engine is fitted, will MYRO still fit in my garage? The total height of the garage interior is, of course, much greater than MYRO with its engine fitted (different story with the tail fin on though) but getting it in is the problem. I’ve got an up-and-over garage door which doesn’t rise to anywhere near the top of the door opening and there’s no way of making it go any higher. My initial feeling was that by eye, MYRO wouldn’t be able to get through the open door once its engine was on.

Now if this is right, it presents me with a problem. If MYRO can’t get into the garage it would have to stay outside and that’s not something I want to happen for any length of time. So I’d have to arrange to fit the engine more or less the day before I took MYRO to wherever it goes to have its wings fitted. Obviously, that would not be very convenient. I’d like to get everything done, fitted, connected and set up in plenty of time before getting ready to fit the wings – and I mean potentially weeks before because quite honestly, as yet I don’t know where the wing fitting, weighing, inspecting, test flying and permitting will be happening. Although I may be given permission, it’s possible that I will not be allowed to do all that at the place where the wings are currently hanging on the hangar wall and I’ll have to find somewhere else, so it will take a lot of pressure off if I can go ahead and finish absolutely everything that I can do here in my garage without having to also plan for such intricate timing and logistics.

However, today I made some quick measurements and if I’m correct, there will still be an inch or so of clearance. I hope that my numbers are right, as that will remove a bit of a worry but anyway, we’ll see when I can measure up again a bit more accurately 😉