We painted some more parts Ocala orange in our paint booth, including two side fuselage foot-well panels, 1 inspection cover, and 2 aluminum gear leg covers.
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| Orange paint sprayed on 5 parts |
The horizontal stabilizers were inserted into horizontal tubes in the tail and bolted in place. The flying wires for the horiz. stabilizers were also installed and all bolts torqued as required.
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| Installing a horiz. stabilizer |
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| Flying wires attached |
The boot cowl was installed, and the windshield was set in place. Next screws were installed along the front through the boot cowl and holds the lower edge of the windshield in place.
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| Boot cowl installed; Line of screws along bottom of windscreen |
We attached the (orange) gear leg covers on the bottom of the fuselage.
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| Attaching gear leg covers |
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| Right gear leg cover. Finish is nice and shiny. |
The front and rear windshield brackets were installed with stainless rivets.
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| Rear windshield bracket installed (with "Experimental" lettering) |
Finally, we temporarily attached the footwell panels so that we could see how the overall paint scheme looks and make sure everything lines up right. Here is a nice shot of the airplane with the cowling and panels in place. We still have some blue protective tape on some parts, and are likely adding a stripe at the border between the orange and white. Very happy with how it's looking so far. Hours: 21
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| Nice side shot of airplane with painted parts in place |
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