OK I am basically done. I put on the elevators/stabs, installed the ruder servo and the pull-pull. I did a test balance first and the CG is at the fro0nt edge of the wing tube, so I elected not to put a servo in back.

The pushrods on elevator are only 1 1/2 inches long and less than an inch is exposed so I decided that the fiberglass tube sleeve was unnecessary.

With the control horns out from the rudder center 1 1/2" the cables just clear the edge of the elevators. It's close but it clears.

Tomorrow I will do the clean up, tie down all the servo extensions and make everything neat, I should have finished photos tomorrow and hope to do the maiden on Thursday.

Altogether I think I spent about 6-7 hours on it. By far the most time consuming part is installing the engine. Even though mounting it is easy, doing the canisters, ignition mount, throttle and choke servo linkages, etc. took me probably half the time I spent on the plane. An 85 single is easier, a lot less to do.

BTW I am using a JR 921 2.4 ghz. receiver and I discovered a neat feature. All through the build when I would turn on the plane's power sometimes all the lights would come on steady, other times they would all blink. Very puzzling. And if they were on steady and I turned the plane off and on then they would blink.

I finally figured out that blinking lights are telling me it thinks it had a reboot from a power failure. If you turn on the transmitter first the receiver thinks it just came back from a brownout reboot and blinks to alert you to the fact. But if you power up the plane first, then the transmitter, the lighst are steady as they should be. Neat feature, check your plane after a flight to see if it's blinking, if it is then you have battery problems.