It was a fine flying day today on Good Friday here in the South East, despite what the forecast originally predicted. We had a couple of showery bursts first thing this morning but these cleared away and the rest of the day was fine and dry, albeit a little chilly. So that gave me the chance to finish the installation of the auxiliary tank. As I said last time, the tanks are connected via a ‘T’ piece in the water test drain in the main tank, and here’s a pic showing how the connection I put in ended up looking.
Quite neat I thought – I’m very pleased with it 🙂 Here’s a pic of the corresponding connection into the bottom of the auxiliary tank.
I had to finish threading the two vertical suspension straps around the seat frame today and after I’d done that I was able to drop the tank into position in the four webbing straps that support it and hold it in position. This is how it then looked.
By this time the job was almost done, but not quite. The main tank has a breather that exits the fuselage under the wing on the passenger side and obviously the auxiliary tank has to have a breather too. It came with a long transparent plastic pipe for this purpose and I decided the neatest way to do it was to connect it into the main tank’s breather using a plastic ‘T’ piece. It worked very well and looked quite neat, as you can see below.
Finally, here’s the finished job.
With the outer sections of the belts repositioned on both sides so they passed over the tops of the tanks, in the end it looked a pretty good job. It’s a pity that the slits that had previously been cut in the pilot seat cover to take the straps for an auxiliary tank are a bit untidy. I’ll have to see whether I can make them a bit neater somehow 😉
English
Nederlands
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Latviešu valoda
Português
Español