I met Guy at Phil’s shop early this afternoon to load up the fuselage and bring it back to my shop.

After some discussion and introducing Guy to the crew, we checked out the bird (again, for me).

One last look before flipping it around to go onto the trailer . . .

With the fuselage a bit heavier than it was when I hauled it before, plus with nothing else in the trailer towards the front, I had to be careful of it fishtailing.  Plus, there’s no way it will fit on my trailer pointing forwards with the engine mounted, so time to start putting it on tail end first.

And a straight on shot from the aft side.

Of course a ton of BS’ing ensued between all of us long after the fuselage, elevators, rudders, aileron (other needs buffing out) and nose hatch door were all ready to transport.

Guy helped me unload the fuselage and all the parts back at my shop.

I then gave Guy a project update, so another couple of hours total there as well… and with a promised date night with my wife, Jess, I didn’t really get anything else done (other than catching up with blog posts, etc.).

Again, next up for final finishing is the canopy, canard, wings and cowlings, loosely in that order.

Marco had sent me this screenshot when we were discussing his StarLink antenna install and use on his trip to Rough River.  I then forwarded it to Guy as it was just one of many things we discussed about my bird, and Long-EZs in general.

Obviously you can see the level of detail in weather reporting that can be had by having real time Internet in the cockpit.  Kind of exciting really… at least IMO.

Tomorrow I’ll jump back onto the vortilons and some other composite and paint stuff while the weather is half-way warm and decent this week to support such activities.