Since we got a slightly smaller total fuel capacity than we expected in the strakes, we’ve elected to prepare supplemental fuel tanks. The strakes built with a baggage area are advertised as holding 35 gallons a side. However, we have found that ours hold just over 30. This could be due to slight differences in […]
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The rear mounted oil cooler comes as a kit from the factory. After some playing around with the three pieces and looking at the pictures on the factory website, it becomes apparent how this goes together. Basically you drill a 4″ diameter hole in the cover-plate and install a ducting flange with pop rivets, then […]
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The seats are being upholstered by www.oregonaero.com, which includes installing the two setting seat heaters that we purchased from Sports Imports, but we need to install the switches. These are pop-in switches, so we just drilled a 3/4″ hole and popped them in just in front of each pair of seats. Front Seat Heater Switches
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The Pilot’s side controls have been installed. After the panel was modified in the panel, the engine controls were installed in their usual order. The throttle is a simple push-pull with friction lock, whereas the prop and mixture are vernier style. The copilot side will later get a non-friction locking push-pull throttle for flight operations from […]
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A support is added between the control stick and the mid-bearing support, 2 1/2″ behind the stick on the pilot’s side of the keel. It’s attached with 2 10-32 screws. Torque Tube Support
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Not yet complete, though here’s the preliminary layout. Also, here’s a picture of us fitting the panel and glare shield with some cut-outs of some of our instruments on the panel. One of the first things that we needed to do on the instrument panel was to create permanently mounted panel sections on both ends of […]
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