I've been working on the skylight and brackets for the past few days. I finally have the skylight all cleco'd in place. There is a lot of trimming to do yet but the basic piece is in place. I'll be installing all the lock plates for the screws that will hold the skylight in place today. Unfortunately, I need to fabricate some new antenna plates. Well, I don't have to, the ones I have will work fine, I just want to make them a bit bigger to include another screw in the bracket to hold them. It will make them more secure and being a bit bigger will help the electrical ground plane too.
I made up my new antenna mount plates. The same as the old ones, just wider.
Started working on the under wing closeouts. They are a flat strip of aluminum cut to shape that goes between the door hinge area and the butt rib. It closes the gap between the wing and fuselage. The raw pieces are provided in the kit but they need to be custom bent, trimmed and fitted. Here's the right side after some trimming and the two bends. The bends are arts & crafts, eye ball bends. Keep trying until you get the right fit.
Left wing preliminary bend on the fuselage side. Ready for the wing bend.
Looking across the cabin to the right side
After several shots at trimming here is the 1/8th inch gap I'm looking for.
Tomorrow, I'll finish up the left side bends and trimming. Then the drilling starts...
