Today I was able to successfully get the black accent stripes on the winglets painted.

Here we have the right winglet black accent stripes painted . . .

And the left winglet’s.

On Marco’s trip to this year’s Rough River fly-in (I didn’t go in order to get this bird done ASAP) he tested out using the Starlink Mini system to have full-time/real-time Internet in flight primarily for optimized weather reports.  Obviously Marco needed to place the antenna somewhere, and for his implementation he settled on using the left strake baggage compartment.

To plan this capability, Marco created a CAD model to test out his deployment.  Thankfully he sent me the CAD file, which I was able to split up to print on my only operational 3D printer at the moment (too small to print it out in full).

When I get a chance I will assess where I can fit this antenna in my bird.  The left strake is a no-go for me since the outer skin is covered with a ply of carbon fiber, so I will look at other options.

Tomorrow I’ll pull the tape off the winglets and start prepping the wings for final white paint.