One of those days where you feel good – riveting!! First though, I drilled some holes in the rear channel for the pitot tubing and ran it from the tubes out through the trailing edge This allowed me to close…
Strut Doubler (30m)
The strut on the bottom of the wing gets a doubler for strength (I presume) and this is made from a pre-fabricated strut angle and a gusset. The first task was to position the strut angle and back drill into…
Deburring and Pitot Tube Installation (1hr 50m)
Started out with 90 minutes of deburring all the holes associated with the top skins, nose skins, trailing edge, ribs, channels, and spar. Not much more to say about that. Before riveting the skins on we have to put a…
Top Nose Skins (1hr 30m)
Nose skins, the bane of this plane building lark and we struggled a bit this time too. Using great care not to bend the skin, or to snag it on the slat supports, we pushed it around under the top…
Trailing edge and flaperon arms
Our drill and drill bits arrived and Dad’s idea was a hit! It was slow going to open the holes to the right size but a few back and forth with the hand drill eventually got the holes opened and,…
Flaperon arms and top skins (2hr 30m)
With the bottom skin riveted on, we turned the whole assembly over so we could work inside and on top. The video has you drill out the flaperon arms before the ribs are riveted to the spar but I decided…