Saturday, October 15, 2016

Re-fabricating the Pitot guide and priming work - 7 hours

Managed a long day on the build. I needed to re-fabricate the guide to route the pitot lines under the bellcrank. The last one I made was nice, but the lines were just too close to the bellcrank. I'm not afraid to say that it took me six whole tries at remaking a bracket that I was happy with. Without going into too much detail, it took some head scratching to figure out how to build the bracket to get the holes close to the spar and still be strong, and have all the holes line up correct and straight.
Perseverance paid off.

The tubes will clear nicely.

Since It was a nice day outside...I decided to get a bunch of priming done on the aileron spars so I can forge forward with those. Since everything was out, I completed the priming on the aileron and flap braces.