We made some more good progress this past week. Fabric doilies were installed over the plastic rudder cable fairings, and three lower finishing tapes were applied to the lower side of the tail.
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| Tail (upside down) with add'l tapes and a rudder cable fairing doily |
Two 8"x8" thin aluminum sheets were installed at the bottom of the fuselage. These are ground reference planes for two antennas (transponder and ADS-B) that will be installed at a later time.
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| Aluminum sheet installed for transponder antenna |
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| Bottom side, large protective doily over antenna ground plane |
3 finishing tapes were installed around the landing gear opening, and 5 more short tapes were applied under the footwell area.
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| Front fuselage (upside down) with tapes applied under footwell area |
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| Finishing tapes around landing gear pass-thru tunnel (fuselage still upside-down) |
Lastly, 18 finishing tapes (1" width) were installed along both sides of the fuselage, in the vicinity of the door openings. Hours: 12
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| Zig-zag pattern of the finishing tapes installed near the door openings |
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