Still Building, Yet Still Studying

Well it's been a long time since I've posted any progress on here, but we are still movin along on the project. I've just been getting ready for CFI tests and have been devoting my time towards that. I want to have my certificate done and out of the way before the next semester of school starts so for now this is my priority, but Dad and I shall be priming wing skins here within the next week if weather is ideal, lately it's been too windy to lay down any primer. Sorry for the lack of posts, but don't lose faith in us!

Getting Ready to Seal the Tanks

Another productive day, we got a lot done! Continuing on the tanks we finished the installation of the vent lines and the capacitive senders. These weren't too difficult to install except for feeding the wire through the notched snap bushings and tightening the screws on the outboard capacitive senders. We also were able to get the flop tube installed in the left tank. Unfortunately we forgot to take a picture of how we safety wired the flop tube to the elbow AN fitting but it turned out looking great. In the next couple of days we'll hopefully have sealed tanks!

Finished Installing Ribs in Fuel Tanks

Well it's been quite a while since I've posted anything new on here, but good news... all of the ribs are in the fuel tanks! Yes we have continued to work on the project, so don't lose hope in us. We've actually been making some pretty good strides in our progress! I've been busy with other things outside of RV building lately and haven't had the motivation to post lately but it's been too long since I've written!

These past few weeks we've been working away on the fuel tanks. These things are so much work! It's definitely messy work too. To have all of the ribs in is definitely a relief. We've had a few RV builders check out our work so far and they've all said the look like the shouldn't leak. Now all we have to do is finish the vent line and install the capacative fuel senders. These things are already almost complete so we should be sealing the tanks up soon!

To take a little break from the fuel tanks, we fabricated the pitot tube out of the supplied soft aluminum tubing. This thing was a piece of cake, we just double check how it is installed since you have a drill a hole through the main spar.