Michael installed the green vinyl strips on on the wings. This allowed us to then install both of the ailerons. Once that was done the control cables were re-attached at each of the control horns on the flaps and ailerons.
We had to obtain a new battery for our ELT since the original had exceeded it's expiration date. A new battery was obtained and the ELT was re-installed into its cradle in the tail of the airplane.
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| New ELT Battery |
Ed started working on the turtledeck modifications that are needed to allow the control cables to enter the cabin area. A lot of precise measurements needed to be made before determining the location of the holes.
The pitot/AOA probe was installed onto its mounting stalk. This required cutting down and deburring the probe tubes and trimming the hoses to the required length before connecting with air-tight push-on connectors. The green hose is for pitot ram air and the blue hose is for the AOA probe.
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| Connecting the pitot/AOA probe |
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| Pitot/AOA probe installed |
The jury strut to main strut attach brackets needed to drilled and painted. Once that was complete the jury struts were installed. Michael tried various ways to install the jury struts but found that installing them on the main strut first and then attaching them to the wing was the easiest method. The jury struts were moved around until the main strut was straight (i.e. no bowing up or down) and then the bolts were torqued to their final value.
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| Left side jury strut installed |
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| Right side jury strut installed |
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| Starting to look like an airplane! |
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