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"Working on Christmas Day....now that's what I call total dedication!!! Keep up the good work guys and thanks for again for the updates Gary." — jpeters

Volunteers in action: Part II - Originally Posted on Dec. 25, 2006

Well, first of all, I hope everyone on WIX out there has had a wonderful Christmas.

Here's your update from today's work that took place...

I overslept for about an hour or so today, so I got a late start. But I did get about two and a half hours of work in alone before one of our volunteers showed up at about 6:30 a.m. Blake is a member of the High Sky Wing and had already celebrated Christmas with his family a day or two ago, so he wanted to work today. Naturally, I obliged by letting him.

While I was piddling with a little project on my own all day (you'll see an update on that another time), I had Blake start unmasking the bombardier's section that was just painted yesterday...

Once he finished with that, I had him continue the prep work on the flight deck for some eventual cosmetic work up there. In the mean time, Daniel Collier showed up to work today as well. He stayed a little over 12 hours yesterday (what a lightweight) getting the main door structure ready for me to paint (which I did first thing this morning...among other things). So since the door was still curing, he got going on the fuselage skin for the tunnel gun. I had painted it yesterday and it was ready to shoot on now. He had built some shims late last night for this piece so that it would fit just right. Man, he does nice work!

Here's the skin all clecoed in place...

So that's all I have for you today. Sorry for the lousy update, but I'll have a better one for you when I get a little further on the project I was working on today. I would imagine that Daniel will have that fuselage skin completely riveted on before he leaves tonight, so I may post some pictures of that as well.