The last thing needed to hook up the Pitot and Static lines is to connect the aluminum tubing in the wing to the Nylon tubing in the fuselage. It turns out there don't seem to be any ready made connectors for joining these different materials.
I decided the solution was to do this like the connections at the Pitot Static Head using a piece of soft rubber hose. Before making each piece of tubing a bead was crimped to each piece of tubing. Then the appropriate nut and ferrule were installed on each end.
The hose was safety wired as before.
The aluminum tube for the static line was made a little longer so the hose would be clear of the nose rib hiding between the bulkhead fittings and the root rib. The lines end about an inch inside the fuselage. They're attached to elbows in the fuselage and will be joined to the wing when the wings are installed.
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