only a few steps left!

Friday evening the Director, production designer and the production manager came up to the shop to see the flying machine first hand. It took awhile to really clean up the space to showcase where we were at with it. And with a 25' wingspan, we needed all the room available. Because everything was all built in the computer first, and cut using Aspire and our Techno cnc, all of the parts fit together perfectly. I have also had the super large job of replacing all of our doors and windows on the lake side of our house. We face north west, and the wind in the winter can be extremely fierce. We replaced 2 sliding doors with windows, replaced another sliding door and 5 more windows. As I also wanted to add some additional R value, we cladded the outside with a urethane board with foil on both sides. We also added house wrap. Me and Jody have been going solid since Saturday morning. Tomorrow should be the last of it except for all new trim on the outside in the spring. Oh yeah, all new trim and drywall work inside as well.

So we will be back on the flying machine hard on Thursday. There is not that much left compared to a week ago. We still have the chain drive for the propeller, the wing fabric, the tail disks and the 4 wheels for the landing gear.

It's gonna look sweet when the wings pop open on camera. The other thing we have to fabricate is a model of a flying machine that will hang in the 'inventors' study. It will kinda look like the version before this one. Everyone was really happy with how it's coming along, and look forward to Tuesday when it gets delivered to location.