Category: Wings
Wingtips
Wingtips were quite easy to fit. KAI is good on this one. Important to get aligned with the spar and also snug up to the leading edge. Don’t forget the nav light wiring!
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Aligning the flaps and ailerons
This turned out to be quite a tricky step, requiring lots of patience. It’s important that the flaps and aileron trailing edges are aligned with a (string) line from wing root to wingtip. My process. Attach rivet, clamp in place, and check alignment. Realign, rivet. I spent several days on each wing for this step. Plus some back and forth with the factory. Top tips, use duct tape to hold it in place. Use a rivet with the mandrel removed to form an easily removable rivet place holder. Take your time. In the end, the LH flap aligned with hardly any match drilling. The LH aileron required 3 attempts but went on quite well after fully clecoing it first. (including dimpled holes). The RH wing was the other way. The flaps required several attempts and in the end many of the outboard holes needed to be match drilled (no more than ΒΌ of a hole). The RH Aileron aligned with no match drilling. Just tolerance build-up I suppose.
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Wiring
Been laying out the wiring harness through the centre console and looking to see how all the required lines will go. Especially how all the lines will go and not clash. Getting past the elevator torque tube. It’s very busy. In the centre console are: Rudder cables x2 Antenna coax x 4 placed in grey plastic flame retardant conduit Fuel lines x 4 used a 3D printed spacer for rudder cables Rudder cable x2 Wiring harness Pitot and AOA pipes Throttle cable Brake fluid header pipe Rear connections The magnetometer has to be fitted in the rear fuselage through an inspection hatch. Quite a fiddly job to do. Brass screws with locktite without dropping a screw that will rattle forever. Then fit a zip tie on the pr existing clamp provided by the factory, so that the magnetometer cable doesn’t go near the rudder cable. 28/2/2022 Tidied up the centre console wiring and added the pitot and angle of attack lines.
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