Well, sorry about not posting too many pictures lately on the blog. Things have been busy with the arrival of Ruth into our family. However, I did find time to shoot a few pictures. Things are still getting prepped on 7DG for blue stripes, so maybe this next week, we'll see some stripes on the fuselage and the tail. Meanwhile, we're busy on 90U doing some structural cleaning and also dealing with a fair amount of corrosion in the aft cabin roof area, as well as the belly of the tail.
So anyway, here's some pictures.
7DG waiting for stripes. My friend Scott Whittaker came a week or so ago from North Carolina to visit some of the surrounding countries on a survey trip. He works for Atlantic Aero, the company that provides the STC for the new engines we're installing on 7DG and 90U. He had a look over 7DG and commented how nice it looked. That was nice to hear. Thanks, Scott.
(By the way, you can see his blog here.)
I'm taking out some stringers and other frame members of 90U so that we can deal with some of the corrosion in the roof area. (Mr. Blank would be proud; I'm wearing my safety glasses.)
I took a panel out of the ceiling, too, to deal with corrosion better. It was fun. I always enjoy putting holes in airplanes. :)
Here's the panel back in, along with some of the other stringers and such. The plane looked funny for a couple days while we were getting everything all back together to rivet. There were so many clecos sticking out all around it, the plane looked like a porcupine. 
Caleb, working on doublers for the exhaust mounts. The firewall is stainless steel and the frame members attached to the back side inside the cabin are aluminum. You have to make a doubler for each side out of the corresponding material in order to patch the cracks caused by the vibration of the exhaust pipe. It's just lots of fun (note the sarcasm). Working with stainless is not the easiest thing in the world, but Caleb has done a good job. 
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