3.5 hours.
Today’s big story was attaching the N number.
Behold my legalness.
And yay, more legalness. This gets covered up with masking tape until it’s airworthy. No sense giving the tax man a foot in the door before it’s necessary.
After this, I went for a quick flight with Don in his RV6A. Don’s between medicals at the moment, and I’m in need of RV hours, so we both get to fly if we’re both at the airport at the same time. Today I flew us over to Santa Paula to get some fuel. Apparently, I don’t suck at flying the 6A. But today was an optimum day for flying, with clear skies and smooth air, so that helped.
After that, I replaced the silicone fuel line I was using for the fuel pump overflow connector and replaced it with some real 5/16″ tubing and secured it with hose clamps. Then I dismounted the spinner and empennage fairing so I could bring them home to paint them. Or at least shoot a half-assed covering of primer on them.
I’m getting tired of the pink cowl and the purple spinner, so even though it might be kind of a pain to deal with later, I decided to spray the cowl down with Krylon Olive, which is pretty close to the same color as the dropship in James Cameron’s “Aliens.” It’s flat. It’s easy. And when I get around to spending a hundred hours or so touching up and filling in the cowl, maybe I’ll do something different. Or it’ll go to the paint shop and it’ll be somebody else’s problem.
The result you see here is before the paint’s actually dry, which accounts for some of the streaks. But when it’s done it’ll be a nice, uniform olive drab.
Maybe I’ll do the spinner bright red. Or black with a twisting white stripe. Although, the metallic purple actually looks good with this color green, so maybe I’ll leave it as is.
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