May 16, 2004

Some of this 5 hours was spent douing electrical, so you can look there to see what’s been going on… Nothing smoking yet!

Anyways, fuselage stuff… I didn’t do too much. I looked at the front spar covers, but they didn’t look like they needed to much attention. Just a debur and nutplate, and they’re done! I’ll save them for later!

Instead, I set up the aileron trim springs, and put in the control stick bases properly. Here’s an overall shot…

Instead of the hokey safety wire techinique, I borrowed an idea from Mike, and used some tie rod arms from a radio controlled car. The clevises are metal too, so they should last OK. They also allow for some minor tweaking to get the trim tuned nicely. Here’s a close up…