A few adjustments and the plane is ready for initial engine run  and testing.

The hardest part is yet to come. TEST FLIGHTS.
Taxi testing I will do at my club field here in Victoria but the flight testing will need to be done in Princeton BC which has a full size runway. Nice to have 5000 feet of pavement in case you are up wind and the engine quits.

The C/G and the weight is all done as you can see on the screen of the electronic c/g meter screen.

This screen shows the plane with 0.18 LB nose heavy. I am planning on test flying it that way and will possibly need to go to a lighter pilot to save some ounces forward of the C/G to move the balance back a bit.

This screen shows the all up weight and the weight on each of the main gear legs and the nose gear leg.
I have some programming of the ECU to do for the turbine and some minor radio programming changes to make. Taxi testing  in another month or so, as soon as the runway is firm enough.

I am finally in the home stretch with the 104.

Been working on the placement of the batteries for proper C/G.

Did a final test on the lights after relocating the battery.

position and nav lights working

Landing lights working

Radar working

It has been slow going as I test each of the electrical and hydraulic / pneumatic systems prior to finally attaching the nose section. Had some lights that failed do to a mistake on my part and had to go back in and replace the burnt out lights with new ones. :(
Should be able to get the receivers and electronics tray installed now as well as the charge ports for the 5 batteries.

The 104 is so long that it is hard to take a picture of it. Need a camera on the ceiling.

It is time now for my least favorite job of programing. I will be leaning on my programing guru David Soufer for help. This is the first scale plane I have set up on the Jeti system and I am still a bit lost with some of the programing. To make things easier I have left the nose section off the main fuse so I can work with easier access.

Once compete the fuse will be joined and ready for final adjustments and taxi testing this spring.

Here is the video of the burner lights working.

Here are some pictures of the burner lights being activated by the throttle stick. The lights do not start to cycle until the stick is at around 3/4 throttle. In these pictures you can see the lights starting to come on and then progressing slowly to full afterburner. I will post a short video of this also.

Here is the throttle being moved to the activation point.

Starting

Full on.