Today I had planned to get the skin drilled and assembled to the spars but it wasn’t to be. Skins seem to be a bit of an Achilles Heel with me. Anyway, I got the skin out and clecoed it…
Day 34: Stabilizer Skeleton Assembly (1hr 20)
The first business of the day was locating and drilling the upper and lower doublers into the front spar. A tip rib gets attached to each end of the spars and an L-angle gets cut to support it against the…
Day 33: Horizontal Tail: Starting the Stabilizer (1 hr)
Time to start a brand new kit!! The tail definitely represents a new challenge in the construction, bigger pieces, and some intricate placing of parts. Anyway, the first act of the day was to take the tail parts out of…
Day 32: Completion of Left Inboard Flaperon (1hr 15m)
Not much left to do on the flaperon today. During the week I had ordered more anti-corrosion protectant and so the first order of the day was to apply that where I had run out the previous weekend. Once dry…
Day 30: Left inboard flaperon control horn (30m)
I did not get much done today! I drilled the rib angles for their respective ribs. I made sure not to repeat my mistake from the previous inboard flaperon and drill the holes for the root rib. These are defined…
Day 31: More left inboard flaperon (1hr 30m)
Got a late start so did not do as much as I had anticipated, really thought I’d be done with the flaperons today (pending the replacement parts). Really not much to say… drilled out the holes in the control horn…