OK!!! Aside from wheel pants, my Decathlon is now at 100%! I dove into slicing up a piece of 1/2" x 1/16" aluminum into 1/4" by 3/4" strips and one long one. I rounded all the corners and bent them so that the angle would closely match the angle of my flying wires! I was successful in getting the top wires rigged so that I only needed four twists of the cables to pull them tight. On the bottom, I ran a strap completely across the fuse just in front of the tail wheel. I used a couple of quarter scale Dubro turnbuckles off of this and then cable out to the smaller angled bits. This allowed me to put tension on the whole rigging. It's not a guitar string.. but it has a nice high pitch when strummed! The end result was a very clean topside with no real potential for snagging a tug line. Using only two turnbuckles kept the weight down as well. I'm really happy with the final product.

Meanwhile, I hope to fly again tomorrow evening and hopefully Saturday and/or Sunday. We still have work to do on the trailer and packing stuff up... We should arrive at Joe Nall in the wee hours of Thursday morning if not very late Wednesday night. This will be my first Joe Nall! I hope to fly the Decathlon there a time or two. I will have to be certain that the adrenalin from the whole affair is well under control before I do! I hear they are expecting around 4000 this year! WOW!!!!