Mowing and a new project.

 11-16-2021

It was a nice day Tuesday, I finally got ambitious about three and decided to mulch up the leaves on the lawn.
The cedar tree puts down lots of debris all around it so I drove real slow and tried to blow it off but I didn't have much luck.  I just barely got done before dark.

11-17-2021

While Vera was at bible study today I decided this Sukhoi SU26M would be my next project, I won it in a drawing at Faro Field a couple of years ago.  It is a fairly big plane with a 73 1/2 inch wing span and is 72 1/2 inches long.  I got it unpacked and got rid of the box which was huge!  Then I went out and did some raking under the cedar tree.  I was surprised how much I ended up with and I only did about half the area.  I checked over the kit and found some areas I wanted to reinforce.  I got a couple of ideas figured out to brace up the landing gear mount.  After Vera got home and we had lunch I brought her out to show her what I had planned.  Right away she pointed out where my plan was going to interfere with the wing.  Boy am I glad she spotted that.  Later I figured out a way to brace it with carbon fiber rods.  This evening I got them cut to length and tacked in with CA glue.  Tomorrow I will start epoxying them in.