Finished up the tail nav light and servo leads for the elevators and then moved on to the landing light install today.

I opened up the uniLight landing light packaging and began looking over the parts. It’s very nice however I noticed right away it needed some adjustments. The servo was pre installed but it was facing the wrong way. Disassembled it from the frame and then reinstalled it correctly. Attached the servo arm and the linkage and did some bench tests with my radio. All looked good.

Next I cut into the wing to get better access to install the light assembly as well as cut the opening for the light to deploy out from. Did a quick fit check and noted some things I may need to do before glueing it in permanently. During the fit check the landing light became unglued from the frame. I’m not sure what kind of glue they used but it seemed inadequate. Something like this should be screwed down as it deploys into the airstream. I’ll look at this a bit more this coming week.


Landing light assembly top view

Landing light bottom view after opening packaging

Surface marks prior to drilling out

Dremel openings in wing

View through new opening to help with install

Landing light assembly with opening in wing

Alternate view of the landing light assembly

Test fit of the landing light

Deployed landing light test fit

Landing light test fit front view

Delaminated landing light