Happy Holidays - Merry Christmas!

The ScaleBirds crew want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Happy Hanukkah and any of the year end/beginning holidays you practice and enjoy. God bless you all.

Many of you know that most of us on the ScaleBirds crew work a day job for General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division here in Southeastern Connecticut. The ship building industry and Electric Boat in particular shut-down the yard and design facilities between Christmas and New Years. We call it “shut-down”. Unusually creative I know. That means a whole week off from work and enough time to get a serious amount of work done on the plane. Ready for that! There are some friends and family activities to make room in the schedule for.

We have been preparing for this week for a while. The design work is done on the mods we are going to do. Some final 2d patterns to make and then we can start cutting metal. We have ordered our materials and have sent files off for laser cutting the steel parts - hope we get them this week. Planning to fabricate the flaps and flap drive assemblies, cut the wing skin and ribs and then add in the flap spars and hinges. Test fit and then paint everything. Scott will then work on landing gear parts in the machine shop. Will see how far we get in a week.