Meanwhile, here in the frozen North (Carolina), the temperature has been close to single digits several mornings in the last couple of weeks, and more of the same is predicted before sane weather returns. This time of year, on average, the low should be around 31 and the high should be around 50. I can live with that. I'm not happy about it, but I can survive in it. This brings to mind the dire predictions from the pundits
back in the sixties and early seventies, when they solemnly proclaimed that we should be preparing for the coming ice age. I am not making this up. Maybe they were right. This is all made worse by the fact that we just returned from our yearly week in the Florida Keys (81 degrees, kayaking in the ocean).
The result: With three kerosene heaters in the shop, I'm still too much of a wuss to work much on the airplane. I have finished with the stub spars and rear spars. The 1/8th inch solid rivets all got squeezed with nary a drill-out. The nose ribs required a huge amount of de-burring, and I'm close to installing them on the main spars. This requires supporting the spars with saw horses while riveting the ribs. I simply don't have room without evicting my car from the garage. I don't have a solution yet.
