Robert and Al are close to running our engine on Robert's dyno, and I should be in Beech Island in January for the runs. I'll post photos as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Rod Dill and Chuck Pyritz at TPR, Inc. and I have been exploring ways to manufacture the wing leading edges. We are close to working out a method with L3 Aerospace Technologies to pre-roll the skin, then form the leading edge in the tooling TPR has built.
In the first photo below, you'll see an error we found in our rib dimensions. TPR has modified the rib blocks involved. We will be shipping them to Mooney for corrected ribs.
The second photo below shows our new main landing gear trunions in one of their machining steps. Cliff Fitch plans to have them finished and will bring them down to Montgomery in January, if he can get out of the snow in northern Illinois. Stiff winter has arrived.
