Sunday, July 15, 2012

Staged for flight

After two days of swearing at stuck bolts, random sessions of beating on same stuck bolts, severe cases of tool abuse, a few blocks, chains, and a couple of beams- we actually managed to shuffle the old Detroit from it's engine bed (where it has been for 22 years) all the way back to it's pre-flight position under the pilothouse hatch. Actually- it was more like a series of small lifts, slide backs, turn 90 degrees, big lift, shuffle back, turn back 90 degrees, shuffle sideways and set down. Exactly as planned!

And nobody was killed!

Tomorrow I dive into a world of scraping, cleaning and a painting the engine bay while we wait for the new engine to become un-missing, and also a weather window to do the flights of the old-out and new-in.

Yes- the weather actually got a bit feisty today. It is quite gusty and predicted to be this way for a couple of days. A good time for inside work.

2 comments:

flyingvan.blogspot said...

Any word on the wood sample? The expert I sent it to said 'Some type of mahogany'. My tenant that works at the Maritime Museum is bringing some to the docents on The Californian to see if it did in fact come from that build---if it did I'll find out exactly what it is

flyingvan said...

More pictures! More pictures!