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"The difficult stuff take a lot of time. The impossible stuff just takes a little longer."
— Gary Austin

Removing the radio operator's floor:

These are shots of me removing the radio operator's floor. Waaaay back when the airplane was converted from a bomber to a transport, they essentially took the radio operator's position out of the airplane by raising the floor and making it a storage area. Well, I'm undoing that. All I got finished today was the removal of the floor. I'll have to make some bracketry and such, but the reinstallation really shouldn't be too bad.

Well, this series of pictures will show that when you're by yourself on a project like this, you have to improvise a little. When trying to reinstall the radio operator's floor in it's original, lower position, I found myself with nobody here to help me lift the floor into the correct spot. Sooooooo...