Week 63 - 4  February 2004

Tonight's work can be stated in three words: "Worked On Windows". 

Our sponsoring Hobby Shop is out of ends for our push rods, so we decided to work on the cockpit glass and nose glass.  Greg had to leave early so that left Rick & I to work on the windows.  There is a snow storm predicted for tonight.  At about seven pm we looked out the window and Ricks van was already covered in snow, so we called it a night.  The pictures tonight should be self explanatory.
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Gary Himes
 

Week 64 - 11  February 2004

I am going to start tonight off, by giving a big THANK YOU to Paul Silbermann of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.  Mr. Silbermann got the door information that we have been looking for.  Also thank you Greg for finding Mr. Silbermann.

We had high hopes of working on the tail control push rods.  But the ends we need have not come in yet, so we had another WOW night (work on windows).  It didn't take too long to figure out Gary messed up on cutting the starboard nose windows.  The correct placement for the starboard side, closest to the nose is one small window.  Then a gun blister placed aft, with another small window aft of the blister.  The port side however is different.  The Gun blister is closest to the nose.  With two small windows aft of the blister.  The pictures tonight show the gun blisters taped in proper place.  The miss cut will not be a problem, as it can be enlarged to proper size for gun blister window.

The navigator dome window was completed and glued in place and the hole cut through the skin of the fuse.  Also the fuse skin was cut away from the radio operator gun window.  The wing fillets were also sanded to shape better.  A little miscellaneous sanding was also done.  We had some discussion of top turret, then called it a night.
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Gary Himes