Grapples and instrument hookup

03/06/2013

Fuselage

Before dinner, I cut out and drilled the wing grapples. I will use these to pull the wings together when I attach the wings. One grapple fits inside the wing root and another fits inside the cabane. A 1/4" bolt goes between the two through the hole. Tightening it up will pull the wing tight against the cabane.

After dinner, I got an email from Falcon saying that altimeter doesn't need to be hooked up to the static port. It uses cabin static presure. So, I went ahead and replumbed the airspeed indicator and mounted the magnetic compass, inclinometer, airspeed indicator, and the altimeter. Used a short zip tie to clean up the pitot and static port lines.