Today, the wing kit arrived via Pawnee Freight out of Humboldt, NE.   Total cost of freight from Oregon to here with residential delivery was $237.   PRETTY REASONABLE!!!

The driver pulled up to the house promptly at 8 am.   He helped me unload the wing spar crate while we waited for Bob Engles and Rick Janssen to show up to help unload the other crate.   The crate holding the wing skins was the lighter of the two.   Two people could have easily unloaded these two crates even though they are listed at nearly 200 pounds each.   They sure didn't feel that heavy.   The driver did make a comment after Bob and Rick left that he thought it was pretty impressive to get the mayor of Auburn out to unload my plane.

I, of course, had to go to work after getting the crates in the garage.   DANG!!!

When I got home, I decided to open up the crates and begin the tedious task of inventorying all the parts.   Tonight, I broke apart the bag containing all the paper bags containing the small parts.   It took me the whole night to organize all the small parts into bins and get them labeled.   Sure wish I was done with the empennage.

Tonight, Tami helped me inventory the remaining larger parts of the wing kit.   Lots and lots of ribs, spars, and aluminum angle.  Putting this together is going to take some time...

Not much excitement here.   The parts all appeared to be accounted for...  There is a lot more room in the crate after you carefully remove all of the packing paper.  Van's does a really nice job getting all the parts into these crates.  Their shipping staff has definitely done this before.