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Old 02-27-2015, 01:18 PM
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The gear doors are being fitted on Bruce's plane. This has been a challenge. The original builder did a very poor job cutting these out. Also, the gear was mounted too far back so that it was binding up against the spar as it tried to retract. All this has been fixed. I will shore up the gear door fit prior to getting started on the paint, which is getting very close on the wing.

Here is where we bring the wires through the center section on the folding wing version. On the plug-in version conduit is necessary because this is where the wing tube would go. This hole is in no way weakening the spar.

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