It may look like a long, silver canoe, but the shiny metal contraption taking shape in Ed Willard's workshop won't be seaworthy anytime soon.
These are the "skins" of an airplane fuselage, joined together rivet by rivet in painstaking work that sometimes leaves Willard's arm and hand numb. Next up will come the addition of the tail, already assembled and hanging on the wall, and the wings, now leaning up against some shelving.
