Exhaust time. Start with these.


The pipe already have labels on them so it goes together very quickly.



Next was to put these parts ( heater muff ) together.



Put these on first.



Then slide the cover on. watch out for the very sharp edges !

hi Jamie,

Great work so far.  You are going to have a ball.

Just one tip.   When you locate your blind components (particularly the avionics, try to imagine accessing them when the aircraft is complete and you are trying to put the plug in from the aft and you are on your head upside down and the damn thing just wont go in.

Thats all.

Keep up the good work.

Paul Strike  

Hi Paul,

yes I have spent to much time thinking of where this or that will go, will it be ok to service it later on etc. As I said it has taken me weeks to commit to just this one item.

Well, thats one less item I can move on from...

Panel work.
Here I am putting things in place, I have ran out of some of the circuit breakers values that I need, I should have new ones here soon.


This shows how much room I have behind the efis screen ( not much ).



I also put the tansponder and Comm antennas in. I was only able to get a picture of the comm antenna before my camera battery went flat.
I used a RAMI comm antenna from Vans. I placed it just FWD of the main spar. I used the double plate that came with it, I just trimmed the aft end of it off, to mate up with the Spar. I put two of the bolts into the spar, the other two just go in the doubble. Being that this is an "A" model the gear legs inside the fuse cover this area , so no damage should happen to the BNC connectors.



and from the outside.



The transponder antenna was place in the same area , but on the co-pilots side. Sorry no picture.
The rest of the week will be putting lots of wires in...fun, fun, fun  

In the blank spot above the radio and transponder , im going to put some sort of stand alone Gps, maybe pocket FMS. Pocket FMS uses a car gps and you mod it to run aircraft data/maps etc. Im also looking at a system that will run media ( movies / music ) I have a few in mind and will keep you posted as to what I do....hehe  

Well its been another 6 weeks, so here is what I have been up to.
I needed to get the wings completed as best I can to be ready to fit to the fuse.
I started to fit these for the flap and ailerons.



I had not put the bottom wing skins on yet because, I needed to fit the AoA and autopilot servo. It would have been a real pain in the a$$ to do this if the skin had been fitted first.
Roll servo ( Dynon )

AoA ( Dynon )

This is where the AoA needs to go.



Use the template , you will need to make the hole just a little bigger than the template.

I used a number #40 drill , then went at it with my dremel tool.

Now I could start to rivet the inboard skins. Doing this by yourself is possible, however if you can get someone to help you, this is the area you could use a hand with

After this was done, it was now time to mount the flap and ailerons to the wing for the first time.

The First wing fitting the aileron took me a good 2.5 hrs, the 2nd one only about 30 mins.
Things I found that make it go faster. 1) fit the the push rod to the aileron first, then slide the rod inside the wing to the bell crank. 2) fit the rod to the bell crank and USE the jig vans sends you. This helps hold thing in place. 3) put the other bolts in without the washers/spacers or nut in to hold position.