Zenith 750 Cruzer

It’s Memorial Day weekend and it’s “finish these 5 things that no one would ever notice. But I’m here at the airport putting one foot in front of the other.

Stole this idea from the internet. Noggin protection.

Wasn’t feeling motivated today, but I came out anyway. Actually spent more time cleaning the hangar than anything, but some progress was made anyway.

Very happy with the access panel work today. Adding two on the side channels where the flaperon controls go, and two in the baggage floor.

Dremel tools are so useful!

 

In my mind, these would take a few minutes. They took hours. They didn’t quite fit and it was very difficult to cleco and rivet in the control channel. My back is protesting now.

Day job today but I did some tidying and fitting of the trailing edges.

Got the wing skin on the pilot site top riveted today. Had been holding off for the pitot tube installation.

Then it was on to the baggage compartment.

Finishing this took about 90 minutes longer than I planned for, but I’m happy with the result.

Doing a pitot tube cover type mount from mykitairplane.com. Got some good advice from the internet on cutting the hole.

 

I’m super happy with the result. Next up, the backing plate and running the tubing.

Finally getting around to doing the seats. I’ve not decided how to finish them. I’m sure I won’t leave them as lawn chair style 🙂

 

Been planning on four part harnesses for a long time. Viking Aircraft has the brackets I needed and they were a snap to install.

 

Then I finally fixed these brackets which I had on the wrong side. Yay for mistakes!