My final goal for today was to get the longerons, turtledeck and forward fuselage sides epoxy wiped, and I’m pleased to report that I completed that task.

Of course to get to the point of epoxy wiping all these surfaces required well over 4 hours of sanding…  all in the past at this point.

Here we have the left side epoxy wiped, with the forward nose area, stopping just under the canard (pic 1) and the longeron, cowl/strake shoulder and the turtledeck (pic 2).

I had planned on doing 4 coats total, but besides it getting really late, since I had to use a brush on the narrow longerons I ended up putting more epoxy on per coat than I normally would with a squeegee, so I stopped at 3 coats.

Here we have the right side.  In addition to the right side turtledeck, shoulder, longeron and forward fuselage side, I also epoxy wiped the repair on the right strake leading edge, the top of each wing root edge, and a couple of micro fill spots on the rudders and winglets.

Just prior to initiating the epoxy wipes, I shot this quick video to show the “exciting”  initial operational test of the canopy internal lock handle functioning with microswitch block mounted on the sidewall forward of the instrument panel.  As I mention in the video, I still have some dialing in to do, but the operational design seems to be working.

Still pressing forward!