For the wingtips I bought a 3 in 1 navigation/position/strobe LED light from Zenith, the Pulsar-EXP from AeroLeds. With the wing tip in place I drilled the mounting holes for the light into the wing tip and then disassembled everything…
Category: Wings
Wing Tip Prep (1hr 30m)
The last two remaining items before the wing is finished are installing the wing tip and drilling the root skin (though it won’t get installed until the wing is fit to the fuselage). The root skin starts by taking the…
Fuel Sender Install (2hr 30m)
I’d been putting this off long enough, time to cut the hole for the fuel sender. I had already marked the rough position of the lightening hole in the rib, so then it was just marking the centre location for…
Fuel Tank Prep (3h 30m)
And now for something completely different: the fuel tank. And this really is something totally new, I have no idea how these things work (other than fill with fuel, fly plane until empty). The fuel tank is held in place…
O/B Top Skin Riveting (90m)
One of those days where you feel good – riveting!! First though, I drilled some holes in the rear channel for the pitot tubing and ran it from the tubes out through the trailing edge This allowed me to close…