Sunday, September 15, 2013

Partial Move Successful

We picked up the truck in the morning and drove it back to the carport to load it. The first step was find a way to safely get the wings inside. We tried quite some approaches and none of them succeeded - at first. The wings were still sitting in their cradle, a cradle built for RV-6 wings which are much shorter. So my RV-12 wings were extending quite a bit beyond the length of the cradle. Pushing the cradle up the built-in truck ramp did not succeed because of the wings extending too far and touching the ramp before the casters reaching the ramp.
We ended up unloading the cradle and storing one wing on a table and the other on saw horses and then carrying the cradle into the truck. We then loaded the cradle again and tied down the wings and the cradle.

We also loaded a work bench, the stabilator and the rudder/stabilizer assembly and some small stuff before heading out to the airport.

And no one was even thinking about taking pictures. Sorry!

We safely unloaded the truck which took about 1/3 of the time we had needed to figure out what to do when we were loading it.

Everything but the fuselage is in the hangar now. And again no photos.

Finally on the way back we realized that there was no evidence of this great milestone and we took some "Mission accomplished" photos.


This is my brother-in-law Mark, obviously still quite hot. And a very relieved and happy builder:


The fuselage had to wait that day as we were way too tired and overheated and Mark had to attend some other work as well.

While I did not take any photos of the parts being delivered to a new home, I at least took some photos of the relieved space.


This is where the coasting workbench was that carried the canopy for quite some time and on which the fuselage was built.


And this was the wing storage corner.

To be continued ...

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