08/02/2009 - Flying and outboard rib and pipework.

Decided to take advantage of lovely weather this weekend and went flying.  In fact I have done quite a bit of flying during January, so far this year i have flown 5 hours, which is only 3 hours short of the whole 8 hours I did last year !!!!  BTW don't hope t build and fly a lot if you want to take less than 10 year constructing.  Anyway the snow was lovely up on in the Peaks so I have posted some photos.  The picture of the dams is Ladybower Reservoir, which has a surface area of 242 acres and was build between 1935 and 1943.  There are 3 main dams the upper one (last in the sequence) is Howden reservoir, then Derwent reservoir and then into Ladybower which is the one with the largest dam.

During the Second World War the Derwent reservoir was used by pilots of the 617 Squadron for practising the low-level flights needed for Operation Chastise (commonly known as the "Dam Busters" raids), due to its similarity to the German dams. Occasional flypasts of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight are staged to commemorate this. (picture 10 of the sequence below shows Derwent reservoir with the older Howden reservoir in the background.

In the afternoon I riveted the outboard rib and fitted the vent and fuel return lines and started to put in the capacitance plates and wiring.  I only have the inboard rib; last capacitance plate and the baffle plate left to do on the fuel tank. :-)  getting there !!