We’ve purchased automotive seat belts in a matching gray color for our interior. We’ve also mounted the hardpoints to mount them to. In the front the shoulder hardpoint is in the rollover beam, and then the lower hardpoints mount to the keel and side of the fuselage, respectively. In the rear, the lower hardpoints are […]
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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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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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One option that we saw and really liked on the factory aircraft (the Dash-5) at Osh Kosh was the interior hand holds like on cars. We decided to go with the VW style like in our Jetta because the color match is perfect, and they have a really nice retraction action. The forward overhead beam […]
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