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The 90 degree edge on the seat back rivets over the top of the baggage floor from memory. I am doing my BAS, not down at the house where my plane is so I can't readily check.

It is a lot easier to assemble the baggage compartment as you build the rear fuselage. You don't want to be waiting for a part to put in later.

Are you sure that part isn't the back of the seats?

Fit the two together and see how they line up. Mine has round shoulders because it is an S so looking in my manual won't help. the cutouts in the floor are for the cabinets that house the flap control rods so fit them in the there an se if the mounting holes line up on the back wall.

I am on the exact same page as you on all of this, but by the time your post count get up a couple of thousand, you like me will realise that the threads will get started if you are patient, and some other poor bastard can get kicked in the head for the post title he chooses out of frustration or what ever. Most of us never realise until after we have chosen a thread title that we or somebody else isn't pleased with, that there is no 20 minute edit period on them. So cool your heels and the threads will still come.

From the back of the seats forward it becomes wider but the rear fuselage uses all the same parts.

Maybe someone closer to you who has built an XL would have one anyway. Maybe Ron Hoey?

If you don't find the back wall give Reg a ring because there is one lying against the wall in his workshop for each kit we built with extended baggage, he should be able to send you one.

The flat sheet of aluminium behind you goes up to shoulder height, then all kits have a baggage compartment back as far as the next fuselage frame. It has a sheet of aluminium in the back of the compartment and a floor. The baggage extension discards that back wall, adds flooring back to the second frame and supplies a different back wall sheet and additional framing to mount it. (Extended baggage came along early in the VGXL release so I am not sure that the factory ever did it for the original VG). Edit. both fuselages are the same rearward of the front frame in the rear fuselage so it would fit.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/south-west/a/29712321/man-43-dies-after-glider-crash-in-wa/ this one not so lucky. Gravity is a real bitch sometimes.

Just out of interest Kaz, at what age does a pilot mature?

Like a Turbo charger!

There is a 3 blade DUC prop hanging on the wall over in the Aerokits workshop. It has been there nearly as long as I have been going over there, give Reg a ring and have a talk to him about why it is still hanging there.

I hung around with Tom at airshows and fly-ins for three or four years on his stands and I was only EXPOSED to it once, at Monto.

Go on Geoff, tell us what is really on your mind!

Wear another coat?

A 750Kg RAA weight increase is not going to increase MTOW of a single aircraft, or make a single XOS pilot fit any better in a cramped cockpit. While ever we fly European planes where weight limits are even tighter, staying slim is going to be an ever present challenge just so we can carry enough fuel to get the job done.

Mark you know me! "Portly"??? I wouldn't have described myself as portly. 6'3" and 89kg. String bean and long thin streak of pelican sh!t have been mentioned.

What did Tom do with the Savannah S he built before he retired? He tried to sell it to me but I bought a kit instead.

That is where I got to with it, Guy has gone through the same process and arrived at the same point. Reg will crawl all over the factory installed 912iS with his camera and then we will all know a lot more about it. Have you bought your kit yet? If not you might be able to order a special kit for the iS motor now that the factory have done a fire wall forward kit for that motor.

It was one of the first six kits Tom imported into Australia, but I think it was the second one flying. The adventurer Alby Mangles was first flying. His plane is also still flying.

Was this one painted in "nipple pink" paint prior to the camo touch up?

Wasn't a scam when I dealt with them. Real people running a real business, hang in there it sounds like a misunderstanding to me.

That could be one explanation.

Are you Hank-erring too Hank?