Well here it is, June 1st, 2002, I have decided not to try and make Oshkosh this year. I might be able to have the plane flyable but it would not be finished. It's been a LONG 3 years 3 months and 6500 hours of working on this plane every day. It's getting very hard mentally to keep working on it but I will finish. To all my friends who fly, please fly over and see it and say hello. To everyone else, stop by anytime.
Pictures of the cockpits and wiring of the plane. The cockpits seem to go on and on, never really finishing. It's going to be one of those things where one day it will be done and it will sneak up on me, but in the mean time it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
All wiring in the plane was replaced. So far I have run over 2000ft of wire, one strand at a time, and crimped over 500 connectors.
I designed the new instrument panel in Autocad and had it cut on a CNC machine. The things I have learned from this plane amaze me sometimes!
A Garmin GNS430 Color moving map GPS goes in the upper right, JPI 9 way EGT/CHT in the lower left and a Shadin Microflo and Skinney dipper (electronic oil dipstick). The intercom will be a PS eng. 7000CAP and the transponder is the new Garmin digital GTX327. For an autopilot an S-Tec 60-2 is installed. FM/CD player and 2nd radio are located in the map case on the right. The oxygen system will be usable with either canulas or masks with the helmets.
The Exhaust stacks are hung.
The master brake cylinders for both cockpits. Notice the plating, I do all my own. Do you like the rudder pedals ?
Wiring from down below the front cockpit, about 1/2 done...( I call this my downstairs front office)
an from above...(my upstairs office)
the front cockpit. I keep saying I need a bigger office. I guess that means a bigger plane!?!?
the back of the circuit breaker panel. It's ready to plug and play. 95 new, silver plated canon plugs on everything. I have gotten very good at soldering!
The back of the front cockpit control panel.
stay tuned.......... soon the engine may run...