My Brother in Law Nate came over today for a few hours. Nate is and A&P IA and a Caravan Instructor at Flight Safety. He's seen the project before, but not for a few months. It's always nice to have a second set of eyes look over the project. Also nice to catch up over a cup of coffee in the garage.

ince I had a second set of hands available, I took advantage of it and finished up the super tracks installation. When I built the fuselage, I incorporated the RV8 slider spine so I wouldn't have to install the spice/extension that comes with the kit to the shorter RV7 track.

Now that we have the rest of the installation done, I can slide the canopy to it's full extension and determine how much extra track I can cut off. Turned out that 3 7/8" cut off the aft end of the RV8 track was just about perfect. Was able to use an existing rivet hole in the aft end of the track for a #6 screw.

Once dimensions were determined, I crawled in the tailcone and Nate backed me up with screw driver from the outside. Removed the spine assy, cut to proper length, prepped for the screws that hadn't already been countersunk for the previous temporary installation etc.

Re-installed spine and checked for proper operation. all good.

Before Nate went home, I got hime to act as antenna holder and went ahead an installed the comm antennas on the belly. Forgot to get a picture, but its really cool to be able to check some of these jobs off my mental list.