First order arrived!

I came home today to find a good size box waiting at my front door from ASS (Aircraft Spruce & Specialty. Unfortunate acronym). ....Editorial note, Aircraft Spruce uses ACS for their acronym.

I now have some sample materials to practice with.

Shop work.

My brother headed down from Seattle this weekend and helped me build a work table. The table is 12'x4'.

It took a while to get used to the things size in my small garage, but after using it to build a fiberglass cabinet from some scrap material, I think I will work out great.

Also pictured are the fiberglass cabinet, my old workbench and two other projects: a bathroom vanity, I still need to make a counter top for and a cedar strip kayak I built a few years ago (my first work with fiberglass and epoxy).

Be assured that I am not responsible for the stylish floor and paint in the garage. Those features were added before I bought my house.

I have a lot of organizing and clean up left, but I can start to picture how this will all work out.

Flying Backward Blog opening

This blog is intended to document my progress in constructing a Long-EZ airplane.

Some might call the aircraft an Open-EZ because I am not constructing the plane from a purchased set of drawings, but rather utilizing the TERF CD set in addition to the great wealth of information available online. However the design is identical and so for now, for simplicity, I will call it a Long-EZ.