{"id":9270,"date":"2022-06-06T04:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T04:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9270"},"modified":"2022-06-06T05:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:07:21","slug":"june-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9270","title":{"rendered":"June 4, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9254\">[&lt;&lt;Prev]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[Next&gt;&gt;]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken a hiatus on the airplane over the last few months. This have been pretty busy with the job, wedding planning, and moving. I expect to get a lot more plane time in over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>My goal was to get the canopy latches fitted. The first thing I had to do was get the canopy installed on the fuselage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9275\" src=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5997-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brackets get drilled to the canopy on the assembly, but there&#8217;s basically no access. I drilled one of the latch holes to #19 and used a piece of sheetmetal to grab the cleco. The sheet metal allowed the latch to float. I have no idea if this is going to work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9274\" src=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5995-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fit of my latch is pretty terrible. I&#8217;m going to have to open up the hole side in the gusset. I was getting frustrated so I decided to call it a day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9273\" src=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5992-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9254\">[&lt;&lt;Prev]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[Next&gt;&gt;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&lt;&lt;Prev]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9270\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  June 4, 2022<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9292,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9270\/revisions\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}