Final thing to do on the bottom of the skin before I can rivet is to locate the trailing edge skins and drill the appropriate holes. First step towards that is to drill through the pre-drilled holes in the bottom skin into the rear channel. Then I slid both trailing edge skins under the...
Today started with a quick opening of all the holes in the wing skin stiffeners to an A4 rivet size hole. After some lunch and shopping I got the inboard nose skin clecoed in place I then started the painful process of drilling every...
First job in the book is to attach the front upper strut fitting to the spar. It’s pretty meaty looking and takes 3 AN-4 bolts to keep it on. Note that one has to go upside down to avoid rubbing on the nose skin....
I took the skeleton apart in preparation for deburring, here is a pile of parts It took about an hour, ugh, I can’t imagine the pain of deburring the...
This day was pretty much about assembling the rest of the skeleton ready for riveting. In this picture you can see that the rear channel angle has been drilled...
Since the last post we had to give the garage a big tidy up in order to find space to put the wing stand out of the way. That...