Saturday we worked on the Tandem along with the Away 35, 36, and Away 37 vehicles. For the Away’s we sewed velcro tensioning straps on all nine fins, (three go on each vehicle). We also refinished and mounted the upper decks for all three.
We been working and reworking the Tandem checklist. It takes five pages to turn this ship on. Each run through we get more familiar with the process and we make changes in the checklist. Our is complete powerup,testing and systems go for flight in fifteen minutes. The main this is to accomplish this without rushing. It at about four hours right now. Most of the time was working out the process change. We also were relabeling all the connection so that they match each other and the checklist.
Working Tandem Making Fins
Paul and the Away 35 Frame
sigh…..