Here is an update on Sam's RV-7A progress with 13B...

 

"I believe I bucked my last rivet last night on the forward upper deck. The plane will be heading to the airport in a couple weeks but will be making a detour to the paint shop on the way. You will like this, when I completed the wiring I ran the engine one more time to verify the newly completed system. To my amazement everything worked, even the interior lights, until I hit the PTT to see if I could pick anybody up. When I pushed the PTT the engine would almost quite and the EM2 would start to scramble, even the FM radio on the garage wall would quite. After a calls to the Gulf Coast Avionics techs is was soon apparent that they led me on a trouble shooting trip that led to nowhere. After a weeks vacation from work and the plane I came home with a fresh mind and discovered a direct short to ground from the coax center conductor to the radio case. A bad radio right out of the box".

 

We should be hearing about a first flight in the next few months!

 

Doug