If you've read my (Cessna 140 or WACO NINE) postings for a while you've probably noticed I'm not very orderly in working through the project from start to finish. I tend to work on what ever I have parts, materials, tools ,or ideas for at the time. When I helped my dad build the Fly Baby back in the 60s we were very methodical. Pete Bowers wrote the plans/manual as a set of step by step instructions. You start on page one of a chapter and just check off each task as you go. When every item is checked off you have an airplane, actually a very cool airplane.
As much fun as it was working with my dad on the magic of building that plane you would think I would be more orderly in my current projects. I'm not because what I learned from that process was that each little item was a project in and of it's self. Each had it's own knowledge required, it's own materials, tools and methods. To some extent it didn't matter so much the order things were done as it did that each was done.
By focusing on each small task, enjoying it, and taking pride and satisfaction in it's completion building an airplane is very easy, a lot of fun, and rewarding. Finishing and flying the airplane was great but just one more little task or adventure just as each flight in it has been since.
By enjoying each saw cut, each hole drilled, each tool made, each little assembly, each flight for all the joy it contains, the Fun really is in the Doin' Not Just in Being Done.
Merry Christmas and a Fun New Year!
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