This assembly consists of the bulkhead, a thick plate stiffener and two brackets for the vertical stabilizer. Two more of the black, anodized brackets will be added later. I plan to go the extra distance with the building of the plane by installing every rivet with a coat of epoxy paint. This is a lot of trouble, or "the long run for the short slide", as my friend Jerry would say. Here are the 76 rivets primed and ready to go.
The finished bulkhead:
Later Monte showed up so we decided to put the sun to bed. Here we are on final:
I caught a glimpse of some movement on the runway earlier today when I went to feed the chickens. Here is Mr. Snapper trying to find some water.
I was going to help him along his way out of the sun but he wasn't having any of that! I think he could give Bleriot a lesson in what biting the hand that feeds you really means.
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