Archive for March, 2007

Fuel pick-up safety wire

Friday, March 30th, 2007

March 19-24, 2007

This week I worked on a number of small things including safety wiring the fuel line fittings, installed a platenut in the firewall for the oil pressure line, reinstalled the SoundEx insulation where it had been removed for work on various components, worked some more on the forward canopy latch and […]

Forward Fuselage

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

March 12-17, 2007

I decided that I will never need to use the canopy jettison since I do not intend to do areobatics. So I installed the forward canopy release mechanism except for the WD 620 T handle. That way the complete release can be added fairly easily at a later date and […]

Primary Canopy Latch

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

February 26- March 3, 2007

I built the canopy latch and installed it this week per drawing 48. The only tricky part was cutting the slot in the side skin. I used lots of masking tape to protect the adjacent areas of the skin and cut the rough opening with the pneumatic cut off […]