Hi there,

Thank you very much for the pictures – I was looking for a photo like this 🙂

Happy anniversary!

Not quite sure what you are looking for, but that is the bonded on strip where the two sheets of wing skins join. Attached is what it looks like on my AA-1B. This plane has never been repainted. Sorry for the bugs, I just got back from some 3 hours of flying.

40 years ago today, My Friend Bob Read gave me my checkout in the “Bumblebee”. I flew up to Bend, OR today and met with him. We had a good day flying around the Bend area.

Another small update – I am interested in this connection

It all looked good on the bottom, but reach your hand around to the top. Uh-oh! Surprisingly, this plane has no other corrosion on the plane. Even the other side of the main spar inside the wing root fiberglass has no corrosion. Make sure you check your plane out thoroughly.

Hi Dave,

How did it go? We will be attempting this next month. Did you swap to LED lights to avoid magnetometer interference?

This was a great story and thanks so much for sharing it along with the ear-to-ear grin photo!

Thanks Andrew. Previous owner of our Traveler removed the steps and glassed in the wing root section and repainted so it will take some effort to procure/make the steps, cut the wing root FG, and add the cowling. Leaving it as-is is looking better and better.

They are hard to find there is one on ebay a RH. I ended up making one. It has a slight tilt but functional