Empennage kit arrives!

Big day! After carfully filling out the order forms, and filling out the 'Payable to...' line, I waited ever so patiently for FedEx to deliver the empennage (French for 'tail feathers', I think). A week or so later, here's what we have-


Nice packaging...

...and here's everything unpacked and inventoried. The blue is a plastic covering that keeps the alclad aluminum sheet from getting scratched. Pay no attention to Bob Marley in the background... :)

One of the really nice features of this kit is that there is no price penalty if you order one sub-kit at a time. This is the route I'm taking. First will be the tail feathers, then the wings, the fuselage, and finally what is called a Finish Kit, which is everything else. Not included are the engine and avionics, uphostery and paint.