2 hours.
Been a rough week. A friend passed away last Saturday, so building an airplane has not been the first thing on my mind. Our plan to take my Aliens-dropship-painted RV7 and fly over Detroit playing Front 242’s “Circling Overland” is postponed indefinitely.
But today I got some of the FWF stuff back together. The only fly in the ointment was one of the baffle connecting rods. I can’t find it. With all the moving around of crap to get things out of the way of our downstairs remodel, I think it got put in a throw-away pile instead of a “keep this stuff” pile. I don’t have time to order another length of that crap from Van’s, so I did it oldschool: I used some .041 safety wire with some plastic tubing around it to tie the baffle together. Not bad. The fuel pressure sensor is also done and connected, the throttle cable bracket bolts are safety-wired, and the air intake is reinstalled and safety-wired. I need to spend some time safety wiring things like the oil drain, the tachometer drive cap, and the oil fill tube, but that’s minor.
Then the exhaust goes back on and we do the top deck skin.
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