A 3D scan of the cowling was made to support research into the possible future installation of alternative engines such as the Aeromomentum AM13 or Flywheel-drive VW. This required the first ever installation of the cowlings since I purchased the kit. This consumed about half the total time since each of the 38 fasteners is individually numbered with different grip lengths - a fact we did not discover until after temporarily mounting the upper and lower halves!

Next came scans of the cowling and forward fuselage followed by the firewall itself, in order to pick up the existing engine mount locations and firewall dimensions. The attempt to scan the firewall by hand ended in a registration failure about halfway through. We started over with fixed scans from the tripod with much better results.