The windshield's top retainer is ready. The photo shows drilling in progress. The holes go down through the center of the forward bulkhead flange, where the retainer will be secured by #8 machine screws into Click Bond nutplates.

The right landing light mount is done. It's similar in design to the left mount, just as strong but simpler and more elegant. The four standoffs used to clear the wing tip rib's lightening hole flanges are small rectangles of 3/16" bar stock, connected with short 6-32 stainless machine screws, washers, and fiber nuts. They make a very secure base -- more rigid than the direct rivet attachments used on the left wing. Tomorrow I'll hook up the wires for these and the NAV/strobes -- and have a light show.

The first photo shows a front angle view. One of the 3/16" bar stock standoffs is clearly visibly at the lower rear attach point.

The second photo shows a side view. Note that the vertical piece at the rear of the mount is not parallel to the wing's leading edge, as it appears, but angled forward to align with the trapezoidal mounting shelf.

The right landing light mount. Note that the vertical piece at the rear is not parallel to the leading edge, rather it is angled forward as seen from view.

The right landing light mount.

Left landing light mounted.

The left landing light mount parts, cleaned up and ready for priming.

The left landing light mount, under construction.

After way too much time and work, the left landing light mount is done. Originally I had put the landing lights on the "after flying" task list, however, I decided that because of our mixed use runway, having the wig-wag lighting to make the plane extra visible from the ground is not a luxury here. The first photo shows the mount under construction.

The second photo shows all five (!) of the parts cleaned up and ready for primer.

The third photo shows the completed mount, with the landing light bolted on. So far I've only located, drilled and attached two corner screws so I can more easily adjust the lateral positioning if need be after focusing procedures down the road. Can't do a good job of that until weather permits reopening the main hangar doors for some long projection. (I'd like to think the right landing light mount will be easier but... probably not. Because the flanges of the wing tip rib lightening holes stick out on that tip, I'll have to put the mount on some kind of standoffs to work.)

The left wing landing light lower support gusset in its (almost) final bent form.

Bending the little end or tip tab of the left wing landing light's lower stiffening gusset, showing use of the small square to keep the bend line perpendiculat to the top flange line.