For those playing at home, the answer is Experimentation.


Anyway we have no idea how well this is going to work, so we've welded in more protection into the "bathtub" on the A-10 we're turning into a monster, and have more padding and restraints in case things get wonky.


So the change's we've made:

• Cut the wingspan down from 57 feet to 35 feet
• pulled the engines off the tail
• figured out how to pull the tiltrotor assembly off the V-22's we're cannibalizing
• Figured out how to do that properly without breaking them and then looked for another V-22.
• spent yesterday figuring out how we can attach the assemblies and retain structural integrity.
• Today we're going to do that.

At this point we figured it might be easier attaching the Gau-8 to the V-22....we'll probably do that once we're done with this project though.