Robert August came over this morning and helped me knock out the sharp bend on the last longeron. It was a tremendous help to have a second set of hands to help maneuver and hold that long piece of angle.

At his point, I'm calling the Longerons done!

Robert used to own a RV6 and currently owns a Glastar. He and I went to A&P school together and later both ended up at Cessna. He worked as a Liaison Engineer, approving line repairs and print deviations for new Citations and Caravans coming down the line. He also worked for a few years as a crash investigator for Cessna. I asked him to look over the big chunks critically and let me know if he saw anything that I had missed. He pointed out one rivet tail on a tailcone bulkhead that was under driven, but that was it.

There isn't an EAA tech councilor near me, but my plan is to have a few friends and family members look over the project on a regular basis to make sure that I haven't missed the forest for the trees. My local friends & family pool includes multiple IA's and A&Ps who will likely be more than happy to point out in agonizing detail if I've botched something.

The plan for today was for Robert to help me shoot the rivets on the belly of the center section & then mate it to the tailcone, but I talked to Kriya last night and she was disappointed that she wasn't going to get to do that, so I'm holding off until she gets home from a trip. Quote; "Don't let Robert finish those rivets, that's my thing."

Yes, I'm pretty much the textbook definition of somebody who married "Up."