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Date: 03-24-2025
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Number of Hours: 6.00
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Short Description: Engine installation
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Not much progress over the last month. More fires, a family holiday and whizzing off to AUSFLY for the first time for a few years. Really, really enjoy it, especially meeting up with the canard community organised by Lindsay Danes. Nice to see his gorgeous Duck also.
Attached the engine to the aeroplane with flight hardware bolts for the first time. Really try to do it the plans way with the bolt heads facing forward, but it is a completer CF with one pair of hands. Used to be able to cheat by having hand in through the back windows. Maybe I should have made them open-able... Review every picture I have on other people's aircraft and note a significant minority that have the bolt heads facing aft, the much easier install. Realise after a bit of thought that they probably ony face forward in the plans due to the convention of always having the heads up for forward, so break the tradition! Chuck the cowlings on, and do the transparent cowling thing that confirms the MS standard carbie is not going to fit. Rotec here I come.
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Please engine, go on the bolt...
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