Yet more sanding… this time down to 400 grit.
I didn't like the blunt shape of the leading edge of the skirt up in the thickest part of the middle where the glass layers were doubled up, so I sanded it to get a gentler slope. Of course this means I'll have to do more pinhole filling here.
I re-drilled the skirt to the canopy using a hole finder, since the previous pilot holes got closed up by fiberglass filler. I think it must have slipped a little bit this time, though, since the alignment is ever so slightly skewed. It still fits and nobody but me will know it's crooked, but I may yet try to fix it. Not sure what I'll do about this yet.
I clecoed the C-653 cover strip in place and marked a line where the rear skirt overlapped it. Later I trimmed the cover strip so it ends just at the leading edge of the skirt. In retrospect, it would have been cool to mold the fiberglass skirt to fit over the cover strip perfectly, but I didn't think of it until it was too late. Oh well, a simple trim works just as well.
Also, my propeller governor arrived today. It's a PCU-5000 that I picked up for a good price through the VAF group buy that was organized a few months back.
