wing finish
I’m declaring the wings finished (for now). I spent quite a bit to time setting up the flaps and ailerons. It is tedious to fabricate the spacers and such for the aileron hinges. I received the installation hardware kit that I ordered from TruTrak for the autopilot servo in the right wing. The mounting bracket replaces one of the original bell crank brackets. Over the course of a couple of days, Tanya installed all of the wiring conduit. Once again, lots of patience is required. With all of that stuff done, I moved on to messing with the pitot tube plumbing. I decided to go ahead and put the aluminum tubing in and put a bulkhead fitting in the root rib. I probably won’t know how well this is going to work out until much later in fuselage construction. You can see the tubing bends that I did in order to be able to disconnect and service the pitot tube without bending or flexing the tubing. Service procedure is: Remove the four screws that hold the pitot mast to the wing skin and the four screws that hold the pitot tube to the mast. Slide the pitot mast into the wing exposing the tubing fitting on the pitot tube. Disconnect the fitting and remove the tube. No movement of the plumbing is required.
And that is it for the wings. I’m sure there will be much more tweaking of flap and aileron hinges and linkage. The bottom wing skins will be installed much later in construction just in case I need access in there for some unforeseen reason.
