Today I spent about 5 hours opening boxes and laying out parts. I'll have some old documentation and wing plans from Vans sometime this week, so today I focused on the fuselage parts.
Some notable things:
1. The large formers are all in two pieces split down the vertical centerline.
2. They have long squiggly stiffening indentations up the sides that look as if they're done with an English wheel.
3. All the parts appear to be hand made, or at least hand-cut.
4. The brakes are wrapped in newspaper from December, 1981... "The Oregonian"
5. Mark found a classified ad in the brake wrappings for an original Les Paul guitar for $600! (He about fainted after finding that one.)
6. Some parts are marked with descriptions in blue sharpie... strangely reminiscent of Van's comment on marking parts in Section 5...
7. Looks like all major fuselage parts are there except for the rear two formers and the ones you have to fabricate. Longerons are missing, however.
8. The canopy box is marked with a return address from Van's Aircraft written in marker from Cornelius, OR.
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