Italian, now you say it...........

Was wiring up the wings for the final servo installation and although Rich had placed holes in internal formers for routing the servo and gear cable it was not a simple job to get cable through these holes so out came the trusty bath plug chain and in short time (Rich actually0 the cable runs were laid with draw strings. We may look to add these in the production kits as it would make the builders life very much easier.

One draw takes the aileron and flap servo leads to the wing root, the second the gear and brake cables to the same point, in all you end up with 10 servo wires exiting the wing, no air lines and very much more simple to work with.

After fitting the servos I packed in a small piece of foam into each servo well to make sure the slack leads would not get jammed under the servo arm during flight.

The retracts are mounted to 4mm ply plates, these require the small M3 brass inserts to be fitted by the builder. Holes are supplied pre-drilled in the correct place for these. The easiest method to instal the brass inserts is to hold one in a pair of tweezers (bent nose version) pop an M3 bolt with a washer under the head and screw the brass insert up on the bolt by turning it with a hex driver, once the brass insert starts to enter the hole in the ply it will lock and get drawn up until flush with the top of the ply rail.

Gear can be simply slid into position and bolted down with 4 x M3 CS bolts.

Internally the base of the forward section of the fuselage has two rails which extend between the first nose former and the main wing spare former, the wing spar former has two wide slots, the lower one allows the rudder and elevator cables to pass through from the rear section, the upper slot is to secure the cover plate and also the provide the tabbed fuel tank (turbine conversion option) base plate a rear securing point, more on this later.

The cables feeding each wing also pass into this channel via slots in the two rails place in line with the openings in the wing roots (pre-made). This neatly brings all the wiring to the front area of the cockpit tub for connection to the Rx.

marcs