No work has gotten done this week, due to work, friends, and me being *really* sick for the past couple days. Here’s what’s upcoming before we can call the wings “done”
- Finish riveting right bottom outboard skin
- Leak test the
We’re using the Dynon heated pitot with the Gretz mount. We pretty much had to figure out the pitot tube installation ourselves. I cut the hole in the skin reasonably well. It’s now mounted and the tubes (pitot and AOA) …
We finished the wiring for both wings and mounted the ballasts for the landing lights.
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A friend gave me his old battery, so we were finally able to test some of the electric components. We hooked up the LED nav lights (pictured below), the strobes, HID landing lights, and pitot heat, and everything works fine–reassuring …
We decided to dimple the right side bottom wing skin one night. The garage is pretty full, so we had to do it outside, and it got dark faster than we expected.
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