Last weekend, I finished adjusting the flying wires and the tail feathers should now be straight and true. John inspected everything on Friday, which meant I could do the fabric repairs and paint.  Unfortunately, I let John convince me that I should repaint the flying wires while the plane’s down, so I also stripped the flying wires.  The paint won’t cure for 12 hours, so I need to wait until tomorrow morning before I can mask off the repaired sections to prime the flying wires. Tomorrow I should be able to prime the flying wires and then I can paint on the 4th.

John and I had done a run-up two weeks ago and most everything looked good, although we noticed the heater muff on the exhaust was really close to the lower cowl. A new support clamp and some adjustments to the muffler and there’s more clearance now. I’m still going to have to watch it for the first couple hours, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I also swung the gear with the cowl installed today and found a place where the gear rubbed on the cowl; a bit of work with the Dremel and it all looks good.

The todo list before flight is pretty short: tighten the bands around the firesleeve on the fuel flow sensor and painting the flying wires. There’s a bunch of adjustments that I’ll need to make to the EDM-900 before it’s ready for a cross-country flight, but I need to make a couple short test flights first so that I can take up a safety pilot while I’m doing the adjustments.