Frustrations and flaps...

This week has been slower in the shop than recent weeks. There was not much fleet maintenance going on, and some of the Kenyan guys were taking some much deserved leave time. Jerry and Paul continued the work on 90U, putting pulleys and bellcranks in the wings and then installing the flaps themselves. There can always be lots of frustrations when doing things like that because inspection holes in the wings are never quite big enough to get your hand through. Plus, there is always a lack of good pictures in the IPC to see what its really supposed to look like. In spite of all that, Jerry and Paul did a great job installing the flaps and are working on getting them rigged.

In the meantime, David Marwa has been putting radio stacks in and doing lots of other wiring. The plane is really coming together and hopefully will be a more solid piece soon and not so many loose parts!

Here's the pictures for this 90U this week. Sorry it's not too many.


Jerry, cursing the engineers at Cessna for making inspection holes way too small. Hahaha, he used to be an engineer at Cessna!

David working with the radio stacks.

Jerry and Paul getting the LH flap installed.

Frustration revealed...Jerry did a great job this week. It really is a hard task installing and completely rigging the flaps from zero (a job I haven't had to do myself, thank goodness). He has the patience to do the work, all the while teaching Paul about doing it. Thanks for your hard work, JH!