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Right Wingtip + Light & Filling Rivets

It is finally time to install our wing tip lights! They're are the Thiesen EPTA NG Nav/Strobe lights.

https://thiesen-electronics.com/en/light-sport-aircraft/6-epta-ng.html

We found a template online (which we had to scale up a bit) and used that to find the positions of the holes that we needed to drill. We made a little mistake so we accidentally made an extra hole in the composite part but it didn't seem too much of a problem. We simply drilled the correct hole on a different location with at least 10 mm space from the wrong hole. We used epoxy glue to install the rivnut to ensure that it will not wear out too easily.

[Electronics]

After the electronics had been tested we installed the wingtip with rivets. Since the holes were match drilled, this went without problems. Lastly, we wanted a smooth transition from wing to wingtip so we applied some epoxy filler to make it look seamless.

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