Unreal help

The one job that I was not looking forward in any shape or fashion was looming.  It's the task of applying the reinforcing fiberglass tapes to the interior of the fuselage, where it meets the canard.  It involves sliding under the instrument panel, working in extremely cramped quarters, in very awkward poses.

As fate would have it, fellow Q-200 builder and flyer Sanjay Dhall just happened to be in the neighborhood, visiting his in-laws. Sanjay had sent me an email announcing his visit, and that he wanted to come and help with the project.  I called him and said that I had this one terrible job and would he be interested?  Sanjay jumped at it.

So yesterday, Sanjay made it to Hangar 27.  With great enthusiasm he went after it. The first thing that had to be dome was to use the Dremel tool to roughen up the flox joints, to prepared for better bonding.  After that was done we (he) started on the glassing,

I would cut the glass to shape and add in the epoxy and hand it to him cut to whatever length he needed. Every time he came up for a breather he still came up smiling.  Oh, did I mention the temperature in the hangar was 98 degrees?  Did I mention he wore a long sleeve sweatshirt to keep the epoxy off of him?

We started all this around 2:00 and it took about 4-1/2 hours, and he was smiling the whole time, then he thanked me for letting him be a part of this repair on this "historic aircraft". His words, not mine.

Thanks Sanjay.  Thank you, thank you thank you.

 This where he was working.