The canopy came out well – except that the small pins that I put in to avoid the center part of the canopy standing out when it gets hot (from standing in the sun) broke off when releasing it from the fuselage. Not a big issue, I’ll just have to do it differently.

On Saturday I went to one of my Hahnenmoos flying buddies who has a CNC milling machine and had offered to cut the sides of the landing gear. I’d prepared a DXF file for the sides earlier using QCAD, so it was easy to convert and upload to his CNC computer and cut the sides. I use 2.5mm glass fiber plate. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a black or white plate, so it’s green-ish, but that’s not too bad either.

I now need to position the gear into the fuselage, cut the opening on the bottom of the fuselage to size and glue it in using thickened epoxy resin.