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Date:  11-25-2015
Number of Hours:  12.00
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Brief Description:  Wing Tip Lights

After being away with work for a week or so & a very pleasant game of golf with friends yesterday, it was back to the project today. GAM once again came down to give me a hand moving the benches & positioning both wings upon them. We then installed the wing tip lights in the fibreglass tips, sounds simple enough but of course a problem arose. The build manual references the trailing edge outboard tip for positioning the lights but we discovered the upswept tips are not the same length, by about 20mm. The length of the tips at the mounting flanges are however the same so we needed to devise a method of plotting the mounting points referenced to the leading edge. We think we were successful as they look the same as the photos I have of factory built aircraft. We then placed both wings on repositioned benches & started to install the tip ribs. A bit of fettling will be required & I need some more 4.8mm rivets before they are installed.
I have one of 4 annual simulator examination sessions plus my annual route check coming up so it's back to the books for me over the next few weeks, I'll see if I can get a few hours in the workshop between reading many chapters.
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Backing plate installed, will have shorter  screws

Backing plate installed, will have shorter screws

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Mirror image

Mirror image

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Neat enough

Neat enough

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