Week 2, Day 4 - Dave Returns

I got back by 11 AM and immediately started to work on the seat pans. I hated fitting the GlaStar seat pans and didn’t like fitting the Sportsman ones much better. But, to be fair, the Sportsman seat pans are cut much closer to fitting by the factory, so it wasn’t too bad of a task. In fact almost everything on the Sportsman fits better than things did on the GlaStar. Glasair Aviation is to be commended for that. All the same, I was glad to move onto something else when I got the chance.

We also did the final rigging on the rudder and elevator, swaging the cable ends and verifying travel. At the end of the day we helped Ted Setzer fit up a 4-into-1 exhaust system on another customer’s plane. It looked real nice, but it didn’t fit. Oh, well. It should be really slick as soon as the header shop gets the dimensions right.

Photo shows me installing access hole doublers in the right wing.