Routing static lines to wing

Air conditioner return

Riveted the rear top fuse skin.

Hinge cover farings.

Great idea from Bob Axsom. Built some farings today while waiting on parts to ship.

Professional build progress report

We hired a professional builder to do a walkaround inspection of our work to date.  Her fee was three jelly beans-to be paid in full immediately upon completion of the job.  There was a little problem figuring out how we rated because of the language barrier.

Headliner

We tried to come up with a plan of how to trim out the top of the cabin.  A cloth headliner can be constructed and glued into place but with time they always show signs of pulling away from the edges so we decided to make a headliner.

We are using the cabin top as a mold to lay up 3 layers of fiberglass and then the headliner will be wrapped around the fiberglass to help hold everything in place.

We used packaging tape for release agent to keep the headliner fiberglass from glueing to the cabin top.

Closing control surfaces ends.

Heater controls.

Started the air conditioner.

We started the A/C today and did some preliminary testing on it.

The air flow through the evaporator on Hi with no duct work (overhead console and air outlets) connected was 390 CFM.

The air flow through the condenser unit with part of the duct work connected was 505 CFM.

This works out to a good match for the rated capacity of the system but more testing will follow when the project is more complete.

Also the A/C system has a high demand for electricity and I do not have a large charger to supply the requited power to the system for a long period of time.

When testing the total BTUH output we measured 11,934 BTUH with a ambient air temp of 70 deg. at the condenser and a 6.8 deg. delta wet bulb temperature at the evaporator.

By this time the batteries were wearing down and the voltage was at 21.6 volts.

I was really pleased with this performance.
That is = to 1 ton for those wanting to compare it with there home A/C systems.

Just finished the lower wing skins.

Whew. What a job.

One wing skin done one to go.

Working on air conditioner instalation

Elt Antenna

Mounted the ELT antenna under the empennage faring.

Delay

Work will be delayed for a the weekend......don't expect to see much until Monday.

 

Rudder cable exit farings.

Starter solenoid.

Started riveting bottom wing skin.

Flap position sensor

Decided to build a flap position sensor. Its not real hard to just glance out the window at the flaps but the Skyview EFIS that I plan to use has inputs for this and while we are building it is not hard to include this feature. I dont know how others have been doing it but this looks like it should work.

Sun and Fun

Went to Sun and Fun for a few days. Work should restart this week on the project.

Learned some new things at the workshops there and will be using them while building.