Deburring and Pitot Tube Installation (1hr 50m)

Started out with 90 minutes of deburring all the holes associated with the top skins, nose skins, trailing edge, ribs, channels, and spar. Not much more to say about that.

Before riveting the skins on we have to put a few things inside. First up was the tie down ring that was drilled quite some time ago. A bunch of A4 rivets took care of that.

Next was the pitot tube and this caused me quite a bit of consternation because the plans differed a lot from the video and my online research didn’t really reveal any official location to put it in. A few forum posts later I went with a suggestion from one of the other builders that seemed to combine the best of all answers. I marked the location on the inside of the skin.

I pilot drilled some holes in the pitot tube.

Then I drilled through the pilot holes into the nose skin, clecoed it in place and opened the holes to size 30. A little deburring and priming, then I could rivet it in place.

and from the top

I have to run the plastic tubing into the trailing edge and out the wing.

One difficulty is that I had to try and line the pitot tube straight from under the wing in the semi-dark, I hope it is at least close!