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  • Finished Rear Window

    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…

  • Installed Rear Window

    Today I had two goals: rivet the side skirts, and install the rear window. I began by removing all the clamps and half the clecos. I then installed the appropriate rivets and used my squeezer to knock those out. I had to use longer rivets in a couple places where I used washers to get…

  • Installed Side Skirts

    Today I installed the side skirts to the canopy. I began by completely prepping the surfaces of both the skirts and the canopy/canopy frame. Since I bonded the canopy to the frame with SikaFlex, I also am bonding the side skirts to the canopy. This requires following the same steps as before: activator, primer, glue.…

  • Canopy Side Skirts

    With the Aft fuselage skin riveted in place now it was time to fit the side skirts. I needed to fabricate the two sideskirts out of some stock aluminum. They needed to be trimmed down to the required dimensions and then aligned with the aft skin. This took some iterations, but eventually I got a…

  • Finished Riveting Aft Fuse Skin

    Today I finished the riveting the aft skin now that the window is trimmed to the final size. Once I finished riveting I then spent some time finishing the surface prep for the SikaFlex process. I also added a 1/32″ monofilament line to set the gap between the window and the skin for the SikaFlex.…

  • Trimmed Rear Window

    Now that the aft-fuse skin is riveted in place (mostly) I decided to continue trimming the rear window for final fitting. I Spent quite a while trying to make the leading edge of the window as straight as possible, and also aligned with the canopy. This was an iterative process, but adding a 1/8″ gapping…

  • Riveted Aft Top Skin

    Today I spent some time getting the aft top skin riveted. My wonderful wife helped my in driving the rivets while I was squished inside the aft fuse with the bucking bar. It was also a day that was a billion degrees, so we tried to get things riveted quickly. Some of the most challenging…

  • Aft Top Fuselage Skin

    In preparation for installing the rear window, I clecoed the aft top skin to the fuse and began final trimming the rear window. It took some iterations, but I finally got a good fit. I also wanted to make sure that the aft skin was aligned before riveting, and that there were no interferences or…

  • Configured CO monitor & Air Vents

    I finished installing my Aithre CO monitor and wired up the signal wire to an EGPIO pin on the Dynon EMS. This allows me to configure and see CO status on the EFIS and have colored regions for different levels of CO. Aithre makes it really easy with a file that can be downloaded and…

  • Avionics Panel Lighting Update

    With the Dynon HDX screens having an angled shelf for the buttons, my panel lighting (along the canopy deck) casts a shadow onto my switches and labels. I decided to install additional LED lights under the shelf to illuminate this area along side the rest of the panel. In doing this installation I also decided…