Fuselage shipped
I got the letter in the mail today that the fuselage kit shipped Friday 7/8/05 and will arrive Friday 7/15/05. Included in that shipment is an order of about $300 worth of “extra” raw materials including lengths of aluminum angle and sheet aluminum, among other random hardware (platenuts, etc.). It is the engineer/planner in me that prompted the order of stuff that I thought I might need for small airframe customization projects to be shipped in the large fuselage crates. Otherwise, to get some of this stuff shipped later could cost big bucks where the materials ordered were chump change. Example: If I needed a six foot length of aluminum angle, the material cost is about eight dollars. It could cost forty dollars or more to have it shipped in a crate and delivered. So I had a bunch of such materials shipped in my fuselage crates :).