drum roll.......
and no major damage! One control horn came off, one set of aileron wires popped off their control horn, and I knocked a tip float off - forgot it stuck out in front of the wing when I turned it over! Nothing not easily remedied...provided I can now figure out how to move the damn thing safely!
I also seem to have made a couple of small errors earlier which very nearly bit me.... when I assembled and rigged the wings I forgot about the dihedral so they sit a little too low at the rear, and the horizontal tail appears to be very slightly tilted, the two together resulting in the rigging just touching the tail on one side. I'm not even going to attempt to correct it, it's not too noticeable, and given how complex this build has been I'm very happy indeed with the way it's all come together!
Tomorrow I will put right the little things that got damaged today, then attempt to attach the drag wires from the rear inner cabanes to the fuselage, and insert the aileron cables in their holes on the fuselage sides. I then need to figure out how to make the sling that needs to be added on the upper centre section, and add the 4 rigging wires that were disconnected to fold the wings: drag wires from the upper inner and middle cabane attachments to the nose, which will be attached to each other at their loose ends and left to hang, and 2 more under the wings which would attach to the float struts. I'll curl the rigging thread around on itself into a small loop and then attach one end, letting it hang under the wing.
Last of all, add the prop, and she's done!
Ian
