Today's afternoon I got some work done on the window and canopy. First I get the window of the fuselage and drill the rear skin. I run into trouble when I vegun to dimple the holes as I had drilled them to large. I will have to use the next size of screws (approved by Van's).
Then I tapped the holes on the rollbar, it took some time as there are quite a few holes there.




Then I cut some backing strips to alleviate the stress around the screws at the rear of the window.




Then with Sabine's help we installed the latch lugs. The operation needs to spend some time in the cabin with the canopy closed. After some adjustments, both lugs where correctly in position. Here is one of them.




And a view from inside with the lock engaged in the lug.




I also installed the upper latch handle. This handle also allows to keep the canopy slightly open during hot weather taxying.