Stjohn's RV-7

1.5 hours.
Trimmed wingtips and got the LED nav light/landing light combo installed in the left wingtip. Mostly. Too many chickens and too many eggs. What I got done was cutting the holes and temp-installing the LED nav light board and the landing light bracket in the wingtip. No paint or anything fancy, and it’s not really that difficult of an install, but as usual, never having done it before, it took a lot more time than I think is probably necessary. I did get the wingtip edges trimmed so they clear the ailerons and they fit nicely into the wing skins. Once the strobes go in, I have to make the wingtip lenses out of the plexi that came in the kit, but once I’ve done those, I’m gonna call this done until it’s time to actually wire the wings and install the wingtips, which will happen a lot later. OH, and good news. The tanks are sealed! The balloons lasted two days without any appreciable deflation, so it looks like my splotch job with the proseal worked.
But back to the wingtips. Eventually, the side of the wingtip cutout holding the nav/landing lights will get covered with red/green scotchbrite tape, if I can find the right size/color.
Now the only things standing in the way of the wings being done is pitot/AOA plumbing and riveting on the bottom skin, which will also get deferred until I figure out what to do about an autopilot. Ideally, I’ll mount the servo in the right wing to counterbalance my fat ass when i”m flying solo, but if push comes to shove, I can mount it on the end of the wing and run a longer control rod, later, after it flies even.
So here’s the tip, with a sharpie mark on it, in an attempt to actually measure where the light is going to go.

Just a quick lineup test of the right wingtip mocked up to the wing to test the trim job. Looks good to me.

This is one of the CreativAir nav/landing light setups. The metal bits hold an MR16 lamp and the red bit with the LED clusters on it goes outside on the cutout.

Here it is in place. The landing light aim is adjusted by long bolts which keep the lights aimed by spring tension. Simple, neat, easy. Props to Bill Von Dane for this setup.