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Building the original HP-10
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Picking up the box containing wing parts in Danbury, Connecticut.
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There are 600 to 700 rivets just in the tail cone section which is about 2.5 m long. Feb 64.
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Miscellaneous loose wing pieces.
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My sister Ragna (right) and her friend pose next to upside down cockpit section.
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My proud father is pleased to be making headway with his project.
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One of the V-tail sections wrapped and tied for glueing I would guess.
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Sometimes Mom and Dad worked together
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Dad wrote on the back:
Gun-Britt was very impressed that the tail actually fit when we trial assembled it for the first time. Feb. 64. |
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Panels of the right wing prior to assembly.
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Mom, my sister and her friend with assembled plane in the driveway in Palmyra, NJ
I suspect our neighbors thought my parents were quite unusual. |
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Oct. 64. Dad in the driveway. The family Citroens never did have a chance to live in the garage.
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Mom is eager to get this bird into the air! Feb 65.
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Cockpit and instruments take shape. March 65.
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June 65. The artists in the family, me and Mom, are called into service for the crucial N number application.
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