After 8 years and 18,000 hours of toil the Boeing 40 C rolled out January 2008 as a finished airplane.
First Flight (again) February 17, 2008.
Facts for the Boeing 40 project:
221 gallons of dope/reducer and 120 yards of 102 ceconite fabric.
12 gallons of polyurethane paint for the sheet metal.
The wings have 33,000 individual parts in them.
The airplane weights 4080 lbs empty and has a gross weight of 6,075 lbs.
It's 34 ft long and 13 feet tall with a wing span of 44 1/2 feet.
Wing loading 10 lbs per sq ft and power loading 10 Pounds per HP.
Should cruise at 115 mph at 28 GPH. And 32 GPH at 120 mph. It carries 120 gallons of fuel in three tanks.
They used 350 2" brushes and 6 gallons of West Systems epoxy. 181 rolls of paper towels.
There were:
62 volunteers who worked on the project to some degree;
21 volunteers who did a significant amount of work;
9 that worked continually over many years.
