Today was still about a lot of assessments and brainstorming on the canopy fit, finish and integration onto the fuselage… and more modeling in CAD developing both the nose hatch latch intermediate pull cable bracket, and the canopy latch handle safety latch.

Here is the latest version of the nose hatch latch intermediate pull cable bracket, which was almost immediately obsolete once it hit the shop with new upgrades noted immediately and added into the Fusion 360 CAD model, although this version worked great for assessing the cable pivot arms’ action.

I then sanded down and cleaned up the micro added to the left wheel pant, primarily at the middle seam on both inboard and outboard sides, but also some on the nose of the pant as well.  I can already tell it’s looking much better and much more smoothed out.

I opened the canopy to again assess and further refine (as it turned out) the canopy latch handle safety latch…. it needed to be a hair smaller in dimensions than what I had (pics coming soon).

While the canopy was open, I sanded down the front edge of the micro that I added to the turtledeck, vacuumed up the mess and then added another round of micro in the minor gaps along the front edge of the previously added micro.

Before mixing up the micro for the turtledeck above, I had already removed the aft “half” of the right wheel pant before taping up the front half seam edge in preparation for micro.  I noted some glass edges and minor surface irregularities on the top aft of the pant, so along with the center seam I applied all the remaining micro to these areas.

I’ll note that I also remounted the aft nose/avionics cover and marked the new position of the front left outboard CAMLOC receptacle, and will drill and re-rivet the receptacle into place… tomorrow.  It was getting late and I was heading out the door for a late dinner with Jess.

The Quest continues . . .