I've been steadily keeping up the work and my Sickle might be ready to maiden Saturday, depending upon the weather and any last-minute glitches I might encounter.

For the canopy I decided to simply go with the F3A Unlimited latch and I made some alignment tabs by cutting down the leftover phenolic control horns. The canopy is still not a perfect fit so I plan to put in some CF braces to get it to behave a little better.

The 4-wire, long lead for the stab servos ended up weighing a bit more than the 2 40" extensions, but the slightly heavier silicone coated stuff will have less resistance and should be better in the long run. Installed a few of those blue foam wire keeper thingies down the inside of the fuse to keep the wires from flopping around.

There were no set screws for the stab adjusters in the provided hardware. I made some by cutting the ends off some 4mm bolts and slotting the tops with a Dremel cutting wheel. These worked out fine.

Programming the CC ESC with the Castle Link was a breeze, and setting the fixed endpoints for the motor went very smoothly.

The Tech-Aero dual reg arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. Had to solder on a Futaba-compatible charge lead for the second RX battery and also solder Futaba leads onto the LiPo RX batteries.

The To-Do list is getting very short!