Hi Gang,
I had a day off today, and instead of wasting it away like usual, I decided to hop in the car and spend my day volunteering at the Canadian Museum of Flight (CMF) at Langley Airport, BC.
Tuesdays have become the big work day at the CMF, and we had about 26 volunteers show up to take on several different tasks. A group was formed to try and remedy a leak on the Waco AQC's Jacobs 330hp engine, the Tiger Moth was having some tinkering on its Gypsy done, our 3/4 Scale P-51B Mustang was having it's annual done, our airshow trailer was having some sealing put on its roof, and finally, the 1930 Waco INF was being reassembled after having been apart for a number of years.
As I was a surprise addition to the group today I was tasked with cleaning the oil off of the belly of the Waco AQC. That was done quickly, so I moved on to the de-bugging of her leading edges. Then I got to cleaning her windows and then took my lunch break. Then I moved over to the Moth and cleaned her canopy and leading edges as well.
The INF is coming along well. She's received a new paint job and I think she'll be quite the looker when she's all back together. For decades she carried a Yellow winged, and black fuselaged scheme, but it was decided to put her back to her original factory colours with a red fuselage and silver wings. Laughter silvered of course.
Our collection has such a large number of BCATP airplanes (Harvard, Tiger Moth, Fleet Finch, and soon to be Cornell) that it was decided to stay away from having another yellow biplane, and thus the red and silver was picked.
Here are some shots of the fuselage while it was being fitted with the little bits and dudads that make her a plane.

And here's the center section fuel tank showing the colour that the wings will be.

And here's the black and yellow she used to carry.

I hope you all enjoy this little update. I'll be sure to fill you in more when more bits and dudads are added to the INF.
And if any of your are wondering about the Fleet Canuck, she's been put into storage until September when she'll be covered, painted and reassambled.
Peace,
David M