First step to finishing the nose rib assembly is to open the holes for an A4 rivet. And then there is the deburring, always with the deburring. I still find a twist of a drill bit the most effective method. Next comes primer and riveting. Four of these will be used “right away” once...
Last we left, I had a bunch of l-angles cut, drilled and snipped so that I could bend them around the edge of the l-angles to make a nice curved strip. It took a bit to get the hang of bending and positioning the angles in the right place, and I will admit that...
Over the weekend of October 22nd, Teri and I spent a day at the Copper State Fly In in Casa Grande, Arizona. We had a pretty good day walking the flight line, talking to vendors, taking in a workshop and generally enjoying the aviation. One of the highlights of the day was definitely getting...
No, I did not complete the wings in 30 minutes, but I have drawn first blood, as it were, on the wings kit (though now I think about it I did cut myself in the process). I had taken the day off work to get a good session in on the wings before we...
A couple of work trips to London and San Francisco plus temps in the 110s meant new motivation to work on the plane for a while. But I am anxious to get the wings out of the box so I got back into the garage to drill out the second nose skin. I did...