Nothing major to report tonight (again) as the motors are still in transit

I did get the canopy mounted with two very small hardwood dowels into the nose ring and it's held down with a simple washered servo screw which bottoms out on a 1/16" penny sized plate and bites into a piece of 1/8" lite ply attached to the underside of the top sheeting at the rear canopy/fuse junction.

The wing fillets are almost done. Another pass of filler and sanding and they'll be nice and smooth. I also finished the little annoying front fuse section at the wing center LE as well as tidied things up at the rear wing/fuse junction where the fairings join the fuse.

There's always a little more sanding to be done or something but until I have the motor, I'm pretty much done. I guess I'll go ahead and mount the stab tomorrow even though it makes final shaping of the tuck lines a little harder (can't rest the fuse on its side but I'll use a cradle).

I found some nifty aluminum spacers for the motor which hopefully will work nicely. They're 8-32 sized and tap right into the FW. For safety, I'll back them with some lock nuts. The front spaces the mounting cross with a couple of nylon washers (helps to keep the motor noise limited to the spinning prop) and a lock washer. The setup should help to add some weight to the nose which I think will be needed but we'll see.

David.