On July 2nd, we finally got the fiberglass tailcone installed on the rear, but we discovered that a portion of the stabilator was scraping the fiberglass cone so we had to loosen the screws on the cone and enlarge the holes in order to get the cone to fit properly. We also took off the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer in order to flatten one of the edges...which we had bent a little. We also put in some of the floor paneling in the luggage compartment.
JULY 3RD, we pulled the plane out today to make the final fitting of the wings. We discovered that you need to be VERY careful when installing and removing the wings, or stand a chance of denting-or-worse the side skin of the a/c. We got everything on ok but the flaperon on the right was binding on some parts so we took out the
wing to figure what we were going to do. We used the file and took off some of the offending metal. We then loaded the wings on a traier and then headed up to Cartersville to put the wings in our hangar. When we got back, we took out the rear glass that we had sitting in the sun, and draped it over the rear of the turtle deck.
We tried to install it, but instead we put it in position and tried to get things lined up but the plastic was still a little brittle so we sashed it up with a small turnbuckle type strap. We'll finish it up tomorrow.
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