COMPLETING THE FUSELAGE COVERING
Finishing
tapes were applied to all of the corners and edges of the fuselage. By
this time the students had become accustomed to the awful smell of the
Polybrush, and chose to work in short spells rather than wear the rather
cumbersome (and non-becoming) respirator masks.
The
"workers" pause for a photo at the end of a covering session.
The final phase of covering was done in November, 1995. The hangar was
not heated and the temperature was getting quite cool near the end of each
work session.
Finishing
tapes were applied to the horizontal tail and also to the landing gear
struts shown in the foreground. We tried to convince the students to wear
the latex surgeons gloves whenever they were working directly with the
polybrush.