RV-7 N890GF

I came back the next day to see how the window set up. Everything turned out perfectly. I removed all the clamps and check the alignment with the canopy. The gap was just around 1/8″ of an inch. I got all the tape removed and then set up some more SikaFlex to create a nice fillet on the front of the window all around the rollbar.

I was very eager to see how the window looked without the plastic, so I removed it. It looked very very clean. Really started to make the plane look more like a plane.

Now that the canopy was done, and the rear window was done, I also decided to remove the plastic from the canopy. This was a huge milestone and nearly 8 years in the making (Quickbuild kit? What Quickbuild 🤣).

One last thing I had been meaning to do (and probably should have done a long time ago) was to fabricate and install the forward canopy brace clips. I don’t have a picture of them, but they are small 1/2″ wide pieces of aluminum that are riveted to the inside of the canopy brace just to add a little bit more rigidity to the canopy frame.

Next up: Wings!