Work continues on the tail fairings, where I’m eager to get a good fit. Abandoning the Van’s fairing for one from Fairing’s Etc., I’m hopeful that I’ll wind up with a better transition between these airframe components. Initial fit shows similar gaps to the Van’s fairing, but the unit is much easier to rework. I’m […]
Adding in the controls is a fun step–although they’ll control nothing for some time. In fact, they won’t even penetrate the firewall until the engine is hung. I had purchased a throttle cable bracket–which will hold much more than the throttle cable–from Stein a while back. Actually I purchased two, a small and a large. […]
Time to start on another fiberglass portion of the build: the bottom rudder fairing. This piece was trimmed along the factory line and the fit was pretty good right from the get-go. Holes were drilled and nutplates installed for mounting. The fit wound up being sub-par. Buckling/pukering and some “dog-earing” toward the front of the […]
More antennas (antennae? (It’s antennas, I just checked)), which means more doublers and more time in the back of the plane. We’re doing the WAAS GPS puck just behind the slider and the Com 2 antenna just in front of the vertical stab. This spacing is slightly less than what Garmin recommends, but what can […]
The rudder has been mounted! I’m quickly wrapping up work on the back end of the plane. The rudder was fairly uneventful to mount, though I anticipate substantially more work to get it hooked up…
Fresh off of the elevator trim, I felt I could tackle the aileron trim. However, when I first took out the trim package, I noticed that I had a package that showed mounting in the wing. I remembered mentioning the position of the trim in the wing versus the center of the cabin to Scott […]
The trim tab was wired and installed, with linkage, to create a working trim tab. This was cool to interact with.
The elevators were mounted and hooked up. This was not without an issue with drilling, in which the holes in the elevator horn came too close to the edge and had to be fill welded shut for another shot at drilling. The vertical stab was also first trial fit, then mounted to the deck of […]
Hello. This post is provided as a supplement to the avionics review video, and houses the files for your own review–which makes me nervous, so a bit about that: The file provided are to demonstrate my approach for wiring only. They are not intended to educate, illustrate, or instruct you on how to wire your […]
Well, being done with the canopy for the time being, I need somewhere else to point my efforts, and mounting the tail surfaces here in the garage has been recommended by many a folk. The idea is to follow the instructions as if this were final construction, mounting the horizontal stabilizer, then elevators, hooking up […]