I cut a hole above the wing-tongue slot in the former at the leading edge of the wing. This let me put the battery up against the fire wall.
What I do with the antenna is use a 36" long piece of 3/16" piano wire to drill a hole through the top of the cockpit back-wall and then through the formers all of the way to the tail. The antenna tube can now be inserted near the top of the fuselage and then front part re-routed back down to the radio compartment.
With a regular TruTurn backplate and the rudder servo as per instructions (Pull-pull), the CG was right on.
Regards,
Eric.
ORIGINAL: MLC
Thanks for the reply Eric, I went ahead and used some RadioSouth CA hinges.
All I have left to do is install the cowl and finish balancing. I ended up having to mount the throttle servo as far forward as possibe as my plane is coming out very tall heavy. Going to pick up a bigger battery to mount on the nose to help get it balanced but, will still need to add lead. Kinda disappointed in that.
I would like to conceal the antea in the fuse in a tube, do yo see any issue with that in this plane?