Tank work

25 May 2006: all of us, 4 hours each. Another of our guiding principles is to equip this plane for sustained inverted flight. This requires replacing the standard fixed fuel pickup with a flop tube in at least one of the tanks. With the Quickbuild, you get fully completed and pressure-tested fuel tanks. So, we had some hand-wringing about tearing into a perfectly good tank, but we are sticking to our plan. Tonight, we removed the right tank to begin the modification process. The idea is the right tank will be the "right tank" for aerobatics.

Also, we didn't like the edge clearance of the hole on the anti-rotation bracker made according to Van's drawing, so tonight we made another one with the hold repositioned slightly. This one looks better. Once this was all done, we took another look at the smaller-sized drawing update shipped with our kit, and realized that Van's has now provided a ready-made anti-rotation bracket with the kit! But after all this, we going to use the one that we made!!

We also did some filing on the aileron bellcranks to get the brass bushings to fit inside.