It’s Saturday morning, again cool and clear but promised a beautiful spring day. I headed for Crystal to extract the leading-edge spar and bring it home to take to Eric and see if he can straighten it. It popped off surprisingly easily. I’ll take it and the keel spar to Eric early next week.
Later in the afternoon, an e-mail arrived from Dave Engle complete with a copy of the Jetwing Owners Manual! He had his wife (or “significant other” as he put it, whoever that means) to scan in each page of the manual. It’s in JPG format, not the best kind of copy, but certainly readable and usable and generally a wonderful sight! I printed it off (2-sided copy) and began studying it. One amusing thing is that on the cover it describes the manual as “For Jetwing All Terrain Vehicle”. What are they saying? Isn’t this a flying machine?! The only contact with “terrain” (other than take-off and landing) would be disastrous! The Jetwing was originally designed as a kit and intended to be assembled by the owner, so re-assembling should be a piece of cake. The assembly instructions are for the most part very detailed although sometimes confusing in places, but nonetheless should provide the basis for a step-by-step reconstruction. I am encouraged. However, there is no detail on the wing at all, just the carriage.
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