Ready for flight trials. Just as the settled weather comes to a close and we have wet, windy and generally unpleasant grot for the foreseeable. Some "glamour" snaps without the uglifying pegs & bands.
Underside & nose won't be covered until balanced and hook positions confirmed as OK. Windscreen to be fitted after all covering complete. Looking like my estimate of 40g for an initial trimmed AUW is about right. Weight this morning including all components not yet fitted 33.5g and assuming, cf Baby Minimoa, it'll need between 5g & 6g up front. Puts the wing loading at about 7.5g/dm^2. A bit on the high side to my mind, but that, taken with the, FF unfriendly, strongly tapered planform was factored in as one of the risks for this "project".
Cock-ups? Oh dearie me, yes.
- Coaming should be about 3-4mm deeper at the front.
- Should have used medium strip not soft for the dorsal stringer. Noticeable starved horse due to tissue tension.
- No ply facing on wing LEs. I had intended to do them, but I'm using EzeDope and domestic tissue and that's a poor combination for multiple layers of tissue. The "ply" facings at the bottom of the rudder did not go well and I'm not going to bugger up the LEs.