Skylane

January 25th:  Thursday was pretty laid back, I installed the rear window in the Skylane.  This picture was taken part way through the job, it now has four screws down each side where the clamps are.  We also made a pretty good dent in the left over pizza from Wednesday night.  Todd a former member of the Lewis County club stopped by for some inspiration as he wants to get back into radio control flying.  He was interested in Corsairs so I said there was a kit in the front room that someone had started but never finished.  I got it out and it turns out I got it from him years ago when he got out of the hobby.  He had bought it used for the balsa sheeting in it.  I sent it home with him and was trying to get him to take another but he said he would wait on that.

I went to "Coffee with the Pastor" this morning, there was a good turn out, nine people showed up and there were some pretty interesting and funny topics covered.

Today I was going to install the front windshield when it dawned on me that I needed to make sure the battery would go in just ahead of it.  I got a couple of batteries out of the motor home to try.  They went through the opening I had made so I started planning how to mount them.  I came up with this tray that is boxed in at the lower end to restrain the battery, I will use Velcro at the top end to hold the battery.

It is tight, but I can get it out by taking four screws out which is good because the nose gear linkage is under the front end.  Tomorrow I plan on drilling some lightening holes in the sides and possibly run a cooling air duct to the lower end of the box.