Wing Mounting Prep - Passenger Seats
TLDR
- Installed Passenger Seat into the Fuselage
Details
In preparation for the wing mounting, another piece of work I’ve done is installing the passenger seats. I wanted to do this because the seat is super bulky. I worry it might be difficult to install when the wings are attached.
Without the wings for now, carrying the seat into the cockpit was a non-issue.
However, installing the safety belts with the seats in place is a huge challenge. From the pic above, you can see the safety belts are just hanging on the side. They need to thread through a hole carved into the seat, which means the belt’s attachment anchor bolt must be removed for the belt to feed through the hole, then the anchor bolt re-tightened.
The space for working on the anchor bolt on either side of the passenger seat is small, especially on the right hand side. It’s right behind the parachute rocket box, completely hidden and barely reachable.
Undoing/redoing the bolt was about 90% of the whole work. I cannot wait to do this again for the annual /s
