TLDR Installed 2 inch ducts to cabin heater Installed cabin heater to fuselage Detail I cut the aluminum 2 inch ducts to 4 short tubes and used worm gear clamp to connect them with the cab...

TLDR Built the cabin heater assembly Installed mounting rivnut on firewall Installed fan speed knob Detail Fan speed knob The knob circular but has a flat slot. The panel’s hole has a m...

TLDR Tested leak on boost pump plumbing Detail I conducted a leak test on the boost pump plumbing today. Unfortunately, both wings have leak on the rigid flare lines connecting the fuel port...

TLDR Installed horizontal stabilizer Detail Last few weeks I was fully stuck on debugging the audio jack. With most of the issues figured out, I decided to work on something easy to make mys...

TLDR Installed front inner skin for both sides Details Since everything that needs to go behind the front inner skin are already in place, I don’t see any point delaying installing them. Bes...

In case it might be useful to anyone, I want to share my experience with NotebookLM. As I make progress in my build my browser bookmark grows quickly. I’ve been putting my build notes (ac43.13 pdf...

TLDR Conducted wire-to-wire continuity test on audio jacks (still in progress) Fixed the wiring after the test Detail I’m on a business trip in Taiwan recently so I didn’t have much time d...

TLDR Upholstered the rear fuselage rib Discovered potential ground loop issue when reconnecting audio jacks Detail Upholstery I don’t remember the source, but I was looking at someone els...

TLDR Workshop organization and clean up Had an EAA tech counsel on fuselage work Detail Clean up Since I moved the fuselage into the hangar last week, I haven’t really got a chance to org...

TLDR Installed fuel boost pump to both wings Detail I finally got to add the fuel boost pump upgrade to the wings. The job is spread out over multiple weeks due to life and other work. This ...