So Racer is back, what happened to him?
Racer has been the LAST guy to clock out at the Airplane Factory. Been working my tail off. LAST guy out the door each night.
Your a racer...you can't go slow enough to knock me out out of LAST...
My plane and I are just plain LAST!
Pure and simple...simply LAST...
Yep.
Been working 70 hour weeks.
In LAST.
Gonna get that mortgage paid off so I can stop driving 65 miles a day round trip to build these things.
This first picture shows a left hand wing in laydown. That is where the wings go after the crew I'm on puts the white panels on the upper trailing edge (the farthest away in the first pic).
The wings are built up standing vertically, on the rear spar (trailing edge). The next picture shows workers who build up the upper trailing edge, at the outermost end of the wing, almost at the wing tip, which is to the left in this shot.
What is really awesome is when the crane moves the center section after the wing/body join is complete. Whenever the cranes are moving a load, they blow a horn, just like the air horn on a Big Truck. Everyone in the area will stop for a moment to determine if they need to stop or whatever, and then move on about their business.
But when I see this move, I stop and watch it. I don't get to see it very often, but when I do I watch it from beginning to end. The size of everything is colossal.
{By the way, I did not take the pictures here myself, no, I stole them from the internet. I know, what a bad guy. And LAST!}