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Final
Assembly.
Starting to look like a plane again, and attracting a lot of attention on the street. Once all the doors and cowls are installed, we can apply the trim colour.
And what a difference that made. We looked at many paint schemes before Storm settled on the finished product. We wanted to get away from the straight lines. http://members.shaw.ca/flightlines.
One of the final tasks to perform on the wings. Cautious cutting out of the inspection holes.
Storm installing the air vent hardware.
Landing light installed.
Pitot tube and mooring rings being installed.
Time to move the fuselage outside... won't fit in the garage with the prop installed! Only a few snags to resolve before we take her to the airport. There, we'll put the wings on and have the weight and balance completed.
Reinstalling the horizontal stab, in spite of the weather.
We've removed our old aux. fin from under the fuselage and installed horizontal stab finlets. With the increased horsepower of our new bird, I'll leave the fins on, even on wheels. I understand I'll lose a little rudder authority but I feel the additional lateral stability will make it worth the while.
Here's a look at our "not so hi-tech" tail-tow bar. Keep it simple seems to work.
Reinstalling the wing. Propping the tail wheel on a small step stool aligns the wing mounting points with the wing atop our jeep. Now, we feed the control cables into the fuselage and hook up the fuel and electrical lines.
After sliding the wing root bolts into their holes, we lift the wing and mount the forward wing strut. At this point it's not necessary to support the wing, so we carefully remove the jeep. Watch those new booster tips!
It's been a long time since the plane looked like this.
After installing the final wing root strips we rigged the ailerons and flaps. Accessing the turn-buckles through the headliner makes the job quite tiring, but knowing we're approaching the end of the job keeps us motivated. Dave Miller |
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