The captain came back earlier than we expected. Nearly thought he was going to blow a gasket when he saw what we were doing.

After chewing us out for a solid ten minutes he ended with how we'd put one of the tiltrotor assemblies on upside down, We pulled the engine and housing off and just had the raw assembly on the side of the craft, and we'd have to reverse the linkage.

Things we have done since monday:

• Welded in more aluminum struts at 45* angles for structural integrity on the wings and  tail
• Smoothed off some of the sharper points.
• Mounted three of the A-10 engines onto the tilt assemblies working on re-doing the upside down assembly.
• Created a control scheme for the tilt assemblies with parts taken from a Sikorsky helicopter.
• Powered up the systems and actually checked to make sure the flight computer worked. Thankfully it did, You'd think we'd have done this first.
• Did a hydraulics test, flaps and everything work within specs (found a manual in another A-10) and the tilt systems work.

The captain suggested we get something to act as a counterweight and weld it to the bottom of the fuselage to keep from having stability issues. Probably is a good idea. 

We also have two more days to get this prototype working otherwise we're going back to Leemoore empty handed. 

And that has been this week.