Well, as much work as it takes to get these little guys all blinged up, the right vortilons are painted.  A couple touch ups may be required here and there, but they came out how I wanted them.

Since I had some leftover white paint, I went ahead and shot that first on the left vortilons after taping them up.

I also cleaned off the tape on the glare shield to reveal the just-attached aft edge seal that I RTV’d in place.  There’s some blushing that occurred in the matte clear coat, which may require some wet sanding, but I’ll figure that out later since it’s smooth and glare free currently.

As well as the Turtledeck’s canopy lip edge seal that also got RTV’d into place as well.  Both edge seals are looking good.

I spent a good bit of the day in front of the laptop finalizing my research on the Trailing Edge Fences to ensure I didn’t miss any key Intel on installing those, and also in CAD creating angle templates for the right wing fences… a HUGE shoutout to Dave Berenholtz for doing all the math to get these angle numbers locked down.  Makes it super EZ to just plug them in and go.

I started with the 77.51° inboard template where the fence is just next to the inboard edge of the aileron, at an angle of course (compared to the outboard aileron edge, which I modified for its fence).  With my superior armchair engineering degree I could tell Dave’s numbers were spot on after eyeballing it!

I then copied and converted the template above to the outboard 78.64° version, and quickly realized that my 50/50 chance of what side to place the angle worked fine for the outermost of the 3 fences, nearest the winglet.

But I had to whip up a reverse version of that one for the outboard aileron since obviously there is no trailing edge to use as a reference where the aileron goes.  Again, I cut the outboard edge of both ailerons at this angle specifically with this fence in mind versus 90° to the trailing edge as called for in the plans.  I’ll make just a hair of a flange on the inboard side so that the trailing edge fence is parallel and almost directly adjacent to the aileron’s edge.

And yes, those are both 78.64°… they just look different with size and width of the templates.

I did a fair amount of administrivia for my electrical system as well, creating labels and updating some reference docs and electrical system diagrams.

Besides my planned shooting of the black stripes on the left vortilons, tomorrow will be all about the trailing edge fences.