While the plane is "belly up" we have some other work to do. This is reinforcing the main gear well. You may not recall, but Brett and Linda decided we should put a tilted bulkhead over the wheel so as to capture that space for additional fuel capacity. The area marked with red is actually the top skin of the strake and the rest of this is that "special" bulkhead.

We may get as much as 3 gallons of extra fuel. We thought it would be more like 5 gallons when we started the project. So it turns out that it wasn't really worth the effort, but you never know when you might really appreciate those extra minutes of air time.

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