This post covers the past couple of days.

First off, I had a rub mark on the front edge of the right wing at the junction where it meets the strake that I needed to clean up and add a little paint.  My fault in that in my haste I should have protected it better.  Then the leading edge near the light needed another touch up after Phil did some sanding.

Of course I ended up chatting with Phil for a good bit, so about a 4 hour total op there given the flash times for sealer and paint, even for that small amount.

But, as you can see, the outboard top of the wing is about 70-80% finished with another few rounds of buffing out to do.  The middle has just been sanded and it’s already showing a decent shiny reflection.  And the inboard wasn’t touched at all as Phil waited for me to do my edge paint touchup.

Back in my shop I pulled the tape off the left vortilons (pic 1), taped up the front swoosh where the blue will go and then shot the middle stripe with black paint (pic 2).

After some prep, I used the remaining black paint I shot the left vortilons with to paint the nose black accent stripe on the left side.  I’ll pull the tape and work any needed cleanups in the next day or two.

I then spent a few hours updating my electrical system diagrams, making & applying wire/cable labels, and installing the magnetometer “pack” in the outboard rib pocket of the left strake.

Here we have the magnetometers’ final install with cables connected and secured.

Another shot of the cables secured and a better shot of where they exit this outboard strake rib area on their way/all the way to the instrument panel via the CS spar.

As I get the vortilons and wing trailing edge fences constructed and painted to install before finalizing the paint finish/ceramic coating on the wings, I’m also trying to knock out small component installs and wiring… from the aft and outboard parts of the bird moving forward.  The major wiring and installs in the nose and panel are coming soon.  So, with that, I called it a night.

Pressing forward!