Title: More fitting and sanding and gluing
Placed an order with AC Spruce for the new wheels, brakes, and axles. Once those arrive, it will allow me to more accurately mock up the landing gear fork prior to its actual fabrication. Spent a lot of time sanding and fitting for the access panel supports and for the new sections of N3 ribs. The N3 nose rib is actually made of two independent sections that are bisected by the landing gear when it's retracted. They are nothing like as the plans show so lots of fitting by trial and error. Additionally, they need to provide clearance for installation of the landing gear spring. Good thing there's a photo of the wheel well from the original build. Looking at the old photo I don't see any value in the section of N3 rib glued to the front of the main spar, at least, not in it's triangular shape. As it is, the rib doesn't touch either the top or the bottom skin. I'm planning on a larger rib that actually touches both skins, providing extra support for the skin and extra stability for the rib. We'll see how it goes. Spent a little bit of time on the pitot system. The pitot tube is mounted to the underside of the left wing and the sensing line runs through the rear spar and then inboard behind the spar and in front of the aileron. This will allow it to enter the cockpit in line with the instrument panel.


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