December 29, 2007 - Shorten Sticks 

Whoops!  My pilot stickgrip runs smack right into the throttle.  Well, only if I'm at lower power and I want to turn to the right.  How often is that gonna happen?  I can live with it.
 
Had you going there, didn't I? 
 
Nope, had to cut the push-to-talk and elevator trim wires, pull off the sticks, and break out the hack saw.  I had to trim off a good two inches to get the pilots stick grip to clear the throttle through the range of stick and throttle movement. 
 
 
 
 I was probably a little too quick to wire up the stick anyways.  I needed to widen the PTT and hat-switch holes so that the switches would fit down into them. 
 
I ended up having to use the Dremel to get the hat-switch to fit into the hole. 
 
Now both sticks pass underneath the control knobs no problem. 
 

I'm trying to finish everything in the fuselage that I possibly can before moving it out of the basement and into the -- cold -- garage for engine and gear mounting. 

The next big area was to finish the empennage once and for all.  So I broke out the horizontal and vertical stabs -- again -- and mounted them to the fuse. 
 
 
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