Happy New Year! I have been out of town on vacation for the holidays so this is the first update in over a week. I went to FL and as part of that got to spend half a day with my buddy Medford Bragg at Spruce Creek. Got to go out in his Rocket - too cool!!!
Anyway, back to building. Cold start this morning, literally, with temps around 15F. I managed to drill the grommets holes in the left horizontal stab (HS) end rib and aft deck for the tail light. Installed a nutplate in the top flange of the HS spar to mount a phenolic or teflon block to hold the ELT antenna still under the empennage failing (i'm trying to think ahead). Routed the conduit through the left HS end rib. I then mounted and torqued all of the vertical stab bolts.
Medford's Rocket Ride in front of his hangar at Spruce Creek
Large conduit the holds the elev trim and tail pos light wires - also pos lgt wire going back down
Nutplate for the future antenna retainer block - yet to fabricated
