Before taking care of the l-angles on the side skin we fitted the HT frames (it took me many days to work out that HT stood for Horizontal Tail) to the pre-drilled holes so that we could measure and cut…
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Rear Fuselage Right-hand Side Skin (4.5h)
Continued with the bottom skin today, removed all the z- and l-angles and deburred holes, primed and then riveted on the skin. If you look carefully we didn’t rivet all the way to the ends of the l-angles because we…
Rear Fuselage Bottom Skin Continued (4.5h)
Just before Christmas, we had been in Vegas and stopped by Mike and Liz’ hangar to see how their 750 build is coming along. One of the things that was obvious from the trip is that we need to turn…
Rear Fuselage Day 1: Bottom Skin (2h)
Time for a new chapter in the build and therefore to go with it a new category menu item at the top of the page: it’s fuselage time! The big news for this chapter is that my Dad is visiting…
Pilot-side Root Rib Replacement and Fuselage Sneak Peek (45m)
Today I removed the previously installed root rib from the pilot side wing and installed the new, Edition 3, one. In theory this is a simple drill out of a bunch of rivets holding the rib onto the spar, nose…